Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...favor of the latter. The fielding of Harvard was slovenly and poor and the batting weak; in fact the playing, as a whole, was poorer than one would expect to see in a class game. The team went to pieces at critical moments and failed to pull together at all. Rand and Burgess were the only men who seemed to know how to play ball. The former played a good all-round game, while the latter, although making one error, which was excusable, made some beautiful catches in center field. Hayes in right let a hit go through his legs...
Watson, stroke, does not shoot out his hands fast enough and tends to pull out at the finish of the stroke...
...here to pick a crew from fellows of his immediate acquaintance or to be partial in the slightest degree; the idea is simply absurd. He is here to teach us to row, a position for which his thorough knowledge of the science adapts him; he is here to pull us out of the hole into which we have fallen and to establish a system which shall win, as it must, a full share of victories in the future...
...University in athletics or anything else, but the diversity of interests in the intellectual life, undoubtedly has a tendency to work against concentration. The occasional return of old "grads" counteracts this tendency by reminding the undergraduates that they are parts of one body and as such should pull together whenever the honor of the whole is at stake...
...Harvard can show no festival of any kind which assumes nearly the proportions in the matter of expense, for so long a period, as the Yale Junior Promenade. The only thing which approaches it is Class Day; but this only lasts a few hours and is no such steady pull on a man's purse strings as is exerted by the Promenade. It is a relief to find a paper which is willing for once to open its eyes to the fact that Harvard men are no worse money-spenders than many other college men. If papers would take...