Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...real opinion in a few words, of poor and hasty work. Is the writer of this bitter invective so thin-skinned that a few short, sharp criticisms penetrate to his very marrow? If so, it proves the thorough efficiency of the instructor; if not, Mr. "English 12" has no right to complain. The instructors at Harvard take the students to be more than mere school-boys, who require to be humored and lightly dealt with, lest they "go home and tell their Pa!" Perhaps it might suit our young Ajax were the instructor to say to him, "Oh, please excuse...
...they may avoid over-exertion and broken bones, is an absurdity, but they may accept and profit by advice as to how best to develop their powers. Still, to these the monotony of the gymnasium will in the long run become irksome. The tennis player will admit that his right arm exceeds his left, without caring to correct it. He cannot correct it without taking time from his favorite game, and there by injuring his proficiency. Is it likely that he will make this sacrifice from an abstract love of the symmetrical? And is it reasonable to ask that...
...slowly. The total height is slightly increased, through increase in length of the lower extremities, but the sitting height and girth of head, knees, instep, waist and the length of upper arm and foot are at first hardly altered. In the athletic class, the excess in development of the right arm tends to establish the fact that our popular games give more employment to the right arm than to the left...
...team. He plays a strong, aggressive game, and is not afraid of trying to stop a steam engine. He has a trick of leaping high in the air and stopping many low punts which might otherwise go half way down the field. Woodruff and Gill, the right and left guards, are both crew men and are exceptionally strong and active. The two remaining positions in the line are filled by Carter and Cross. The ormer is a crew man, and the latter was a substitute. The rush line, as a whole, is rather above the average weight, and most...
Trafford, right guard, blocks well. Must run harder when he gets the ball. Is inclined to fumble...