Word: missed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college. Very much of Harvard's honorable position is directly traceable to the high character and noble quality of her graduates, and every chance which present students have of drawing nearer to these graduates and studying their lives is a chance too valuable to miss...
...college gives us plenty of drill in writing well ourselves, but little enough of the sources from which the standards of good writing come, the best English authors. In Mr. Copeland's work this much neglected matter is taken up in an interesting way and the students will miss a good opportunity for increasing their general culture and for learning of a new source of pleasure for their future, if they miss these Monday evening lectures...
leaving the interference. The ends overrun their man on a kick and generally miss him, while opposing teams flnd little difficulty in breaking through the lines...
Barton, owing to an injury which he received in the B. A. A. game, has not been playing up to his usual standard. He breaks the interference, but is slow on kicks and is apt to miss his man. Watson plays a steady rather than a brilliant game. His slowness, however, enables his opponents to pocket him too easily. Shaw is steadily improving and if he can acquire sufficient knowledge of the game will prove a valuable man. He is slow now and does not get into the play as he should. She has played only a few times with...
...great difference, however, between eastern and western football, he says, is remarkably evident in the kicking and punting. In the east a good deal of time is devoted to these details, and consequently we find fullbacks who seldom make a bad punt or miss a goal. In the west it is different; the kicking and punting is poor-it could hardly...