Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have got to work very hard this year for the championship. Nothing but the hardest kind of work will win it for us. We hear that both Princeton and Harvard have exceptionally strong teams in practice, but we don't mean to let them get away with us if we can help it. There will be no holding or slugging allowed in the game this year, so our men will be specially trained against these defects. According to the new rules we will have two referees, one to watch the ball, and the other to watch the men. Of last...
...part of the writer. The items of expense which he brings to notice most assuredly need examination. The boat club is not so much to blame in this matter as the system which has come into use. The trouble in the case undoubtedly lies in a lack of that kind of activity which is so requisite in matters of finance. The business of the treasurers of the boat club has become a routine which is vicious on account of its want of susceptibility to new methods. If a thorough overhauling of the manner in which the accounts are kept...
...such should so be much the case that defeat last year should prevent Harvard men from going to New London this summer. This year's crew is new and inexperienced, but the men are all well and there is at present no indication of a fluke of any kind. The race with Columbia and Yale will undoubtedly be rowed upon their merits...
...easily, but safely. Now the English cricketers saw none but full-pitched balls thrown in the base-ball game they were watching, and yet to their astonishment quite a considerable proportion of these balls were missed! Here were the members of two trained teams, missing again and again a kind of ball which an English schoolboy would be ashamed to miss once in a score of trials...
...which has been heard continually for a long time. We hesitate, therefore, to enter once more upon the subject, The summary measures taken last year to punish the hiding of books seemed at that time to meet the exigencies of the case, but further repressive measures of some kind will be necessary if any liberty in this matter is to be given the students. The particular case referred to by our correspondent does not stand alone, by any means, but the owling away of books is done continually and without the least thought of others except as prowlers who would...