Word: quick
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...left there owing to Cooper's fouling out to Willard, who made a magnificent catch. Foster went to the bat but was put out by an assist of Gates. Campbell made a good base hit, and paralysed the out team by stealing both second and third in quick succession. Willard went out on a foul. Campbell came in as Gates threw wild at third in attempting to put him out. Henshaw flied out to centre field. Score, 3 to 0, in favor of Harvard...
First Bout - Thayer and Dame sparred the first bout. The first round was quickly opened by Thayer who got in a body blow on his opponent. Dame replied with some straight leads with his left which reached home nearly every time. Thayer was quick on countering and ducked in a puzzling way. The second round was even more lively than the first. Dame got in an upper cut at an opportune moment when Thayer had ducked and not guarded his head. Dame countered with his left in fine style. Towards the end of the round both were somewhat winded...
...Banjo Club was greeted with lively applause, and the expectations of the audience were realized. A recall proved that a classical audience is quick to recognize a classical thing...
...hear much of the Harvard indifference; it could hardly be that no such carelessness should exist among us, for before a man gets the control of any department of interest - athletics, literature or anything else - a large fraction of his college life has passed. Hence, a quick succession of captains in the crews and nines, of editors-in-chief in the papers, and so there can be no fixed policy in the conduct of athletics or anything else. One man builds his plan out and disappears; another succeeds him and grafts his own ideal on to his predecessor's relicts...
...boxing on a Ladies' Day, the chief of which was that no lady could with propriety witness the sport. Such an argument is, we may say, puerile; for a feather-weight match properly conducted is merely a display of dexterity and grace, attributes which our fair friends are especially quick to admire, and with justice as well. If any lady, however, is so weak as to be frightened or affected in any way by a contest which involves much less danger and physical pain than very many of those less conspicuous matches which she looks upon unmoved, then...