Word: repeating
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...step toward trying for the crew. These men are needed and badly needed. The captain of the 'varsity has set his entire faculties on our success this spring, but he needs candidates for the vacant places - a large number of able-bodied men to choose from. There are, we repeat, such able-bodied men in college who have not yet come forward. Here is an imperative call to them, a duty which they owe to college athletics. We must make every effort this year, we must strain every nerve and personally sacrifice anything for this important contest; this year...
...this last moment we must not forget the crew. It has had hard luck, very hard luck, but it has stuck to its work manfully, and the men have spared themselves nothing to repeat the great victory of last year. May success attend them...
...practices which prevent a team from playing its best (beyond the practices of legitimate rattling) are distinctly to be discouraged. Using mirrors to throw the sunlight into the players' eyes, a practice which was fortunately stopped after the first few innings, is going decidedly too far. The teams, we repeat, should not be physically prevented from playing their best...
However, as has been said, history is likely to repeat itself...
...larger than ever before. Last year the H. A. A. sent three times as many men to these games as any other athletic association, and Harvard athletes carried off nearly all the important prizes. With even a greater number of entries this year the crimson certainly ought to repeat the excellent work of last year. It is a subject of congratulation that so many men are training for the Mott Haven team and are doing good work. We shall need a strong team if last year's brilliant record is to be maintained. The result...