Word: respected
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...umpiring of Mr. Pearce gave universal satisfaction to the unprejudiced. Although he was compelled to make many close decisions on bases, he seemed to show great judgment and impartiality. The errors by Harvard were made almost entirely in poor throws to first, while Columbia was good in that respect, but failed to show up as well in quickness of judgment at critical points. The game as a whole was the best that the nine has played this year. The men all showed a coolness and grasp of the situation that was extremely encouraging to the friends of Harvard that were...
...complication of a court trial, and the student whose testimony figured somewhat in the late trial was exempt from criticism by those who are usually disposed to shield wrong doing at all hazards, only because of his uniformly courteous bearing towards his fellow students, the high respect which his general course in college has gained for him, and because his testimony was not volunteered, but was given in the course of ordinary conversation at the table of one of the professors, to whom he is related and with whom he resides...
...more good and get more practice when one is beaten than when one is victorious. It is always better to play with a more powerful rival than it is to play such teams as our nine is compelled to meet. To know that you can conquer, to feel no respect for your opponent, is to give rise to feelings of laxity and carelessness which are positively injurious to a good team. In such contests the weak points of the team have no chance of being found out, and are thus left uncorrected till the most important championship games. During...
...present year has been singularly fortunate in respect to the large bequests that have been made for the promotion of learning and the advancement of the college in other branches of utility. So much has been given towards the embellishment of the University, that even the most sanguine of Harvard's friends hardly dared to hope for a further increase of funds directed to promote its interests, but through the generosity of an undergraduate and a former member of college, a need which has long been felt is at last to be fulfilled and the gymnasium will be rendered doubly...
...public schools - namely, to produce accuracy and a reasonable degree of facility in numerical operations, while wasting the time of the pupils, perplexing their minds, worrying their tempers, rasping their nerves, and, in case of total or partial failure, unnecessarily and unrighteously shocking and impairing their self-respect and scholarly ambition...