Word: lacks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...must be a great many men in the class who can go with their team to New Haven. The game with Yale is the important one of the season for the freshmen, and their eleven has a fair chance of winning it. The victory must not be lost through lack of hearty support from the class. Every Ninety-five man should be stirred by the thought of the long series of freshman victories which Harvard has won and he should be determined that his own class should not spoil the record through any weakness of class loyalty...
...salvation. All who saw the game must have felt that it was a burning shame that men who showed so plainly that they could have accomplished so much should have been left to struggle in a hopeless individual contest against eleven men playing as one, and all through lack of proper coaching. It is this feeling, the protest against the needless sacrifice of excellent material, that gives the single touch of bitterness to our defeat...
...fourth number of the Advocate came out Saturday and seems to us to be slightly inferior to the previous issue. The verse of the number is up to the usual average and the editorials and Topics of Day are well written, but the stories in general lack the originality and artistic finish of certain of the contributions to number three...
...rest of the half Harvard rushed hard, but her lack of team play and carelessness prevented much permanent advantage. Graves brought the ball up into Harvard's territory by his long rush by Hallowell's end. Harvard got it on four downs and worked it down the field to Trinity's five-yard line. Here, after a fumble or two and poor blocking by Harvard, the ball went to Trinity on four downs. Harvard got it again on a kick, rushed it up and Lake scored around the right end from the fifteen-yard line. Goal...
Jackson has the greatest possibilities for a half-back of any candidate who has presented himself, but he seems to lack sand or confidence in himself. He is very apt to start slowly and get too far behind his blockers, but when once going he is the fastest man and best dodger on the team. If he will overcome his tendency to be satisfied with himself when he has made his five yards and will fight till he is down he will make a good...