Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...show increased accuracy in fielding, but still have a tendency to rush their plays. Some advance has been made in batting, though there is much need of improvement in this department. The players are too apt to hit at bad balls and on the whole do not display good judgment...
Harvard started the game with a rush and principally by individual work Winsor, Rumsey and Pruyn in the order named scored three goals within the first seven minutes of play. A moment later Wolff secured a goal for Columbia and just before the end of the half scored again. At the beginning of the second half the play was very even, but after each side had made a few weak shots for goal, Winsor finally captured the puck from Campbell near Columbia's goal and scored Harvard's last point. Campbell made the third goal for his side...
...score of 13 to 1. The University team played exceptionally well and kept the puck in the opponents' territory most of the time. The picked team showed an almost entire lack of unity. Their one goal was made at the beginning of the second half on a determined rush by the forwards who broke down the strong defense of the University team and made an opening for Wait who shot the goal. The University team played well together throughout the game and presented a very formidable attack. The work of Smith, Wait and Barrows for the Law School...
...some features of political campaigning in New York during the past autumn. "'Soapy' Smith," by B. Wendell, Jr., and "The Hoboes' Congress," by L. M. Crosbie, are the two stories of the issue. Neither one has enough incident and movement to make it especially interesting. "A Plea for the Rush," by J. Willard Helburn, is, in effect, reply to Professor Shaler's article against the rush, which was printed by the Monthly in November...
...that the method be announced before the game and not afterwards. It is a great task to deal out 32,000 or 35,000 tickets on any system, but it is a task performed every week in grand opera season by the Boston Theatre. We all realize the rush and the vexation, but plainly the nervous strain of the process is much increased if the manager is to be subject to heavy demands for a preference...