Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard will lose only a few of her foot-ball team this year, and Princeton will lose only one man, so that we will have to exert ourselves to the utmost to retain our position at the head of the league. It is impossible to get much valuable practice during the first week of the term on account of the poor physical condition of the men, and it therefore becomes necessary to be some what easy in the work until they be come somewhat used to it. We would therefore suggest and urge the men who were on the team...
...constitute the Union, I should have fallen painfully short of the performance of that duty. As secretary and treasurer of the Society I have now in my possession both its documents and its funds. However unpleasant it may prove to be, I shall regard it as my duty to retain possession of the property which has been entrusted to me until my successor has been legally elected...
...folly of working for a cup that cannot be won in perpetuity is to continue, Harvard ought to be able to retain even the temporary possession of it, and not let it go visiting among the various colleges. We hope that the result in New York to-day will be conducive to that end. Harvard's chances are good. If our men show, nerve they will...
...league of four clubs, while the sentiment of Harvard and Princeton in favor of Columbia will doubtless cause a compromise. It is not likely that any decision will be reached by the Yale managers for some time, as they intend conferring with ex-captains and other Yale graduates who retain their interest in college base-ball...
...system now is to collect a small body of men to train, and educate them carefully for any given team, to dismiss the worse one by one, and at last retain only the necessary number of players. The fault in this method is that many come to college without that education in any branch of athletics which for all the teams - except the class crews - is necessary as a guarantee that they are worth educating. How many who are indifferent players when young, as they develop their bodies, develop also a talent in some branch of athletics. Others who have...