Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...defeats out of a total of five games. Harvard has not stood so low in foot ball since the students here first gained a complete familiarity with the Rugby game. This is certainly an apparently dismal outlook; but we do hope that every effort will be made to offset the bad effect of these defeats by victories in the future. As for the game on Saturday, we prefer not to make any editorial comment on it until all the aspects of the case have been looked into...
...sent, every Democratic paper in the Union will print it with the heading "Harvard for Cleveland." Harvard, however, has voted for Blaine by a clear majority. If the University had an electoral vote it would be cast for the Republican nominee. Let those therefore who are Republicans prepare an offset to the Democratic address by drawing up a set of stirring resolutions to be sent to the Knight of Maine. Let us give reasons for the faith that is in us. Let our endorsement be full and fair of that party which crushed the most stupendous rebellion of history, which...
...yard straightway. It was built last spring, and with a season's frost, should, by May 24th, with proper care, be in splendid condition. Its sides are 150 yards straight, and its curves 70 yards. This latter is the only drawback. But the straight do a great deal to offset this. The 220 yard straight is about the best part of the grounds, as, when two champions meet on the scratch, there will be no argument of unequal terms brought to bear, and records will be remorselessly...
...literary weekly, was so small makes any choice of names liable to the suspicion of local preferences. If is but natural that men who are about to select a list of names which whey consider of most worth, should be more or less influenced by personal preferences. The only offset to this tendency is, that as the prejudices of the reading public of New York are apt to differ from those of the reading public of Boston, the errors made by a New Yorker will naturally be counter-balanced by those made by a Bostonian. But in the case...
...interest taken in this prolonged contest has helped to enliven some of the events which have a tendency to drag. Another year we shall hope to see the general excellence men appear in greater numbers. The absence of any tumbling was also noticeable at the third meeting. But to offset any defects, there has been a greater excellence in many of the old performances. Three Harvard and one amateur record have been broken, and a much greater amount of attention and consequent skill have attention and consequent skill have attended the tugs-of-war. A healthy class pride has been...