Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...semi-finals will be played this morning and the finals this afternoon on the Carey court on Holmes Field. Each match won counts a point, and the score by points of the schools is at present, Newton High, 17; Cambridge Latin, 10; Roxbury Latin, 9; Brookline High, 7; Providence English and Classical School, 6; Noble and Greenough's, 3; Hopkinson's, 1; Concord High, 1. This gives the school prize to Newton High School, no matter who wins in the semi-finals and finals...
...Starr, Point, Dawson...
Woods, Cover point, Stevens...
...there was to be any debate with Yale, and the great majority didn't care if there was. "Of course we will win" was the one cry. We approached the great contest, which meant so much to Harvard, with the most ridiculous self-complacency, and were beaten at every point. It was a reflection of the overconfidence that lost us the Princeton football game last fall...
...third Harvard speaker, W. B. Parker, re-enforced the point that the strength of the court was its limitation...