Word: move
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During the coming season, then, an earnest and decided move should be made toward the permanent and effective establishment of class nines. Our ball players ought not to shrink from the task because it requires a certain amount of time and trouble. If the rowing men in the classes are willing to undergo two months of monotonous gymnasium training, work on the river in all sorts of weather, and make other equally great sacrifices for the sake of their class and the prospects of the university crew, surely it is not asking too much of our base-ball players...
...class nine captains should make the initial move individually. There is no reason why they cannot make a place on a class nine as honorable and desirable as a place on a crew. As some decisive step must be taken, and as this seems to be the only thing to be done, we hope to see, during the coming season, an earnest and united effort on the part of the leading men of the class nines to bring Harvard back to the commanding position which she held of old, and which so clearly belongs...
...Every one in the eleven has his position and his play. More than this, the quarter back play which the Britishers so much despise is the key to the whole game. That whole game is one system and the whole team a machine which depends upon the slightest move of that one man. Would any American player give up the beautiful play which results from this feature - the throws to the halves - the short passes to rushers - the quick kicks by the quarter himself, and take in its place the pell-mell pushing, hacking and butting of the English scrummage...
...that college. Harvard, we are assured, will take no action which can cause her to lose her own self-respect, nor, we hope, the respect of other colleges. But a reform must be made, and it is now the plain duty of Harvard to be the first to move in the matter...
...Exonian suggests that Harvard's next move towards economy and the reduction of expenses be made by cutting down the "banquet fund" - in other words to serve the governor-elect of Massachusetts a cold lunch only on the day when in triumph he shall ride to Cambridge to take his degree...