Word: player
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...political clubs of the University since 1888 when he was a member of the Harrison campaign committee. Speaking of the candidates of the Republican party, he said there were really only two, Taft and Hughes. Although Hughes is a strong and energetic worker, he is a single-handed player, a fault which cannot insure a strong administration. He lacks the important element of team play, which is Taft's strongest point. Secretary Taft is best fitted for the presidency because of his large experience gained from his beneficial rule of the Philippines, his building of the Panama Canal...
...game was fast and clean throughout, few fouls being called on either side. The work of the University team was by far the best of the season and was a considerable improvement over its playing in the first Yale game. Van Vleck was easily the best player on the floor; he shot four baskets from the floor and threw three from fouls. Brooks and Browne were strong on the defense and currie's basket-shooting was accurate...
Under the auspices of the Harvard Chess Club, A. M. Sussman, champion chess player of New England, will play all-comers in the Game Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. Contestants must bring their own boards...
...February number of the Outing Magazine Mr. Caspar Whitney has come out with a vehement attack on college baseball players who take part in "summer baseball" for one consideration or another. Mr. Whitney is not wrong in his estimate of the corrupting influence of this "crooked amateur," but he directs his remarks against Harvard, Yale and Princeton "because of their prominence in the college world and not at all to single them out as graver offenders than others." He commends President Tucker's act in disqualifying certain guilty players at Dartmouth "to President Eliot of Harvard, President Hadley of Yale...
Although inclined to doubt seriously the condition that Mr. Whitney depicts at Yale and Princeton, we can speak authoritatively only of Harvard. Certainly here the summer baseball player and semi professional is not now present. The University takes pleasure in the geauine of its team. Indeed, if the semi professional were representing Harvard, it could not be attributed to President Eliot if he did not get his descries, for he speaks through ignorance who accuses the President of any lack of courage in such matters...