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Word: rightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...seems to me, brings out forcibly one of the strongest reasons for Harvard's defeats in the past. We are satisfied with too little from our teams. Our attitude has been too often that of your editorial, when you say of the crew: "All that we have a right to expect of it is for it to make a reasonably good, creditable showing." To be sure, we do want this; but we want more. We have a right to expect, and we do expect, that they will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 6/23/1897 | See Source »

...also do the crew an injustice. When we have a crew which is by common consent the strongest in years, why discourage their work by telling them beforehand that you do not expect them to win; that it would nothing short of marvellous if they did? They have a right to expect, in return for their hard, unselfish work, the implicit confidence of the University, and this, it seems to me, your editorial fails to give...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/23/1897 | See Source »

Whitman Mitchell Chandler '98, of Jamaica Plain, shorstop. He was substitute left fielder in his freshman year and has played at short for two years. He was right fielder on his freshman team. He prepared at Roxbury Latin School, where he played in the field. Age, 21; height, 5 ft. 10 in.; weight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Players. | 6/23/1897 | See Source »

Robert Hooper Stevenson, Jr., '97, of Boston, third base. In his freshman year he was 'varsity substitute and played third base and right field on his class team in their two games with the Yale freshmen. He was third baseman on the Hopkinson School team for two years. Age, 21; height, 5 ft. 11 in.; weight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Players. | 6/23/1897 | See Source »

Edward Guyer Burgess, Jr., '98, of Montclair, N. J., right field. He prepared at St. Paul's and Andover. He played in the field at the latter school for one year. Age, 22; height, 5 ft. 8 in.; weight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Players. | 6/23/1897 | See Source »

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