Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...team is very strong this year and this is the first time it has been defeated. Harvard showed unusual strength and was superior in all departments of the game, winning in the last minute on a goal from the floor by Allen. Although the game was inclined to be rough, fouls were called more because of over-anxiety than from any premeditated malice. Had it not been for the ability of Grebenstein in throwing goals from fouls Harvard would have won by a larger margin...
...champions in the sports, and this can only be done by encouraging intercollegiate sport. As I emphatically disbelieve in seeing Harvard or any other college turn out mollycoddles instead of vigorous men, I may add that I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough. Rowing, baseball, lacrosse, track and field games, hockey, football, are all of them good. Moreover, it is to my mind simple nonsense, a mere confession of weakness, to desire to abolish a game because tendencies show themselves, or practices grow up, which prove that the game ought to be reformed...
...certainly an unworthy reason, and it shows either a weakness or worse than a weakness in the man's character. Above all, you college men, remember that if your education, the pleasant lives you lead, make you too fastidious, too sensitive to take part in the rough hurly-burly of the actual work of the world, if you became overcultivated, so over-refined that you cannot do the hard work of practical polities, then you had better never have been educated...
...last game of the season the University hockey team defeated Yale in the St. Nicholas Rink, New York, last Saturday evening by a score of 3 goals to 2. The match throughout was marked by rough play...
...been spoiled by the recent poor weather. There is good skating, however, at the Cambridge Skating Club, the Brae Burn Country Club, West Newton, the Country Club, Brookline. The skating is fair at the Charlestown playground, the Randolph street playground, Boston, Boston Common and Public Garden. The ice is rough at Wood Island Park, East Boston, and at Spy Pond, Arlington...