Word: pointed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spectators attended the game that there was some excuse for the utter lack of life which the Harvard team showed. The fielding was by no means clean, and all the infielders made very bad errors. The batting was even weaker, while the coaching was contemptible. At no point in the game did the home team show the slightest energy. In the Yale game on Thursday, Harvard will not have the slightest chance if she plays a game anything similar to that of yesterday. The men on the coaching lines seemed to think their only duty lay merely in listlessly watching...
...with the causes of his success or failure" in business. For "the business man is mainly concerned with the immediate future; the economist with the permanent trend of affairs." But "the greatest advantage of economic study is precisely in the training which it gives in taking this wider point of view. Political economy will not help its students to prosper; but it will give them a better understanding of the forces which affect the prosperity of the community;" and will help instill into them "an impartial public spirit...
...meeting held last Thursday on the grounds of the New Jersey Athletic club at Bergen Point, to decide the Eastern amateur athletic championship of the Amateur Athletic Union, three events were run which must greatly interest Harvard. They were as follows: Two hundred and twenty yards dash-Final heat won by James P. Lee, Harvard College and New York Athletic Club, 23 1 5 seconds; C. H. Sherrill, Yale University and New York Athletic Club second by two feet...
...were nearly a length ahead, but could not increase this lead until after the mile was passed. when they spurted in magnificent style so that at three quarters of a mile from the finish they had a little over a length of open water between the boats. At this point both crews spurted to 40 to the minute, but the pace was too fast for the Columbia crew, who were forced to slacken, while the Atlantas drew away and finished about three lengths ahead. Time 9 m. 22s. At the end of the race the Columbia crew was quite badly...
...score of 6-1, 6-3. Harrison played a very steady game straight through. His placing was admirable, and he volleyed well. Day on the other hand was far from sure, and although he got in an occasional clever stroke, the outcome of the match was doubtful at no point in the game. The doubles on the other hand were closely contested. Harrison and Soule, '90, for Exeter, and Spalding and Moore for Andover were the teams. In each of the three sets Exeter obtained a good lead, but the Andover representatives played a good up-hill game, and made...