Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...were not resumed again until 1897. In that year a tie game was played at Cambridge, in which neither side scored. Last year Harvard defeated Yale at New Haven by a score of 17-0 in a game in which Harvard proved herself superior to her opponent in every respect...
Behind the line there was a great deal of confusion, as many of the backs were kept out by slight injuries. There was also a good deal of fumbling, in which respect Ellis and Warren were the worst offenders. Sawin played at quarter, and ran the team well...
...varsity has not been able to score more than one touchdown a day against the second eleven, indicates how strong a second eleven the new system has organized. The kicking game is also being developed, and, through the excellent punting of Sharpe, has had much success. In this respect Bates was decidedly out-classed on Saturday...
...advantage Bowdoin had through the aggressiveness of her backs, was more than offset by her weakness in punting. Not only was the centre-rush inaccurate in passing the ball, but the few punts Upton was able to make went barely twenty-five yards. Superior though Harvard was in this respect, the kicking on her side was by no means satisfactory...
...Mason 1 G.; "Macaulay as a Literary Critic," by E. W. S. Pickhardt '98, and "Coventry Patmore's Conception of Genius" by J. La Farge, Jr., 1901, These criticisms are all interesting and full of care and precision in composition and in style. But in this respect they suffer from a fault which mars many a Monthly contribution. They are more careful than anything else. They are not surprising, original or absorbing in subject matter, nor yet interesting for any novelty of treatment. They read as if they had been turned out for the English department to begin with...