Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...successful in that, we shall have won but three games out of eight. This result is due in part to the bad luck which has disabled from time to time some of our best players. The one point which has lost so many games is the weakness and lack of judgment which almost every man has shown at the bat. Few men can bat with confidence and steadiness unless they have had practice against the best pitching - that of professionals. When our faculty made the anti-professional rules, they had reason to believe that Princeton and other colleges would...
...regular and careful training that most college athletes have been in the habit of receiving, and naturally the results will be below the standard. Although we may keep the championship cup this year without the services of a competent trainer, we can hardly expect to do so hereafter. The lack of good training is felt as much in this as in other branches of athletics. We again express our hope that the faculty will next year see fit to allow some different arrangement in regard to trainers than that of this year...
...college should show its appreciation of the faithful and successful work of our athletes by turning out in large numbers at the sports this afternoon. Although the management has been put to great inconvenience by the lack of an efficient trainer, yet, thanks to the energetic work of the association, we trust that our representatives will meet with no mean success on the 26th. At all events, we feel sure that some fine records will be made this afternoon, and that no one will regret having witnessed the sports...
...former editions - "Fair Harvard," "Yale Men Say," "Climbing, Climbing, Climbing," "Tally Ho," "The Midshipmite," "There is a Tavern in the Town," "Drink, Puppy, Drink," and several other songs which have become familiar to the college ear. The only criticism to be made on the book is a lack of thoroughness in arranging some of the newly inserted songs. "Fair Harvard," for example, should have been arranged in parts, as should the chorus of "Over the Garden Wall." Only the chorus of "Climbing" is given, although the introductory solo is the prettiest portion of the song; while the words of "Yale...
...college. Indeed, when we consider how much more has been raised by the Yale students than it is proposed to raise at Harvard for new athletic grounds, it would be strange were any plan which would offer such manifest advantages as this one to be rejected for lack of funds...