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...varsity played a dull and unintereresting game on Holmes Field yesterday afternoon. The work of both nines was listless. Harvard's play was marked by Cummings' effective pitching and the general poor base-running. The base runners paid no attention to the coachers at all. Lafayette played a very fair game, but her fielders made some costly errors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball. | 6/5/1890 | See Source »

Earle, No. 4, is listless; not prompt in his motion and leans back too far in the stroke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Freshman Crew. | 2/28/1890 | See Source »

...final doubles in the tennis tournament were played yesterday afternoon on Jarvis field. The playing on the whole was poor and listless, owing a great deal to the coldness of the weather. Tallant and Lee defeated Lockett and Wrenn, 3 sets love, the score being...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finals in Doubles. | 10/24/1889 | See Source »

Yesterday the members of the '85 'varsity gave this year's 'varsity valuable aid. Although on account of lack of practice, the '85 team was easily beaten, the listless playing of the 'varsity was very noticeable, and was commented on by the graduate team, If the nine expects to win even one of the three games with Yale, it must do much better work than was done yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/11/1889 | See Source »

...athletic men, it can not help but do so. So long as the students of Harvard, as they have done this year, expect defeat and feel as if they had given up hoping for victory, we shall keep on being beaten. At the base ball games this spring the listless undergraduate spirit has been all too evident. We hope that this letter will be read by every student and that it will teach a needed lesson. Not only in the games to be played this year, but in the boat race can college enthusiasm work wonders. When...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/7/1889 | See Source »

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