Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...base ball interests at Princeton have been taken up especially early this year. Seldom if ever before has the training for base ball begun so soon after the close of the foot ball season. By her early beginning Princeton evidently wants to show that she means business, and will make a hard fight next spring for the championship...
...strict rules and punishments of school, are apt to forget themselves in the greater liberties accorded here to students supposed to have passed the school-boy age. There are quietly dismissed from college every year many men, whose absence is never known without the college bounds and often seldom within them...
...just before the games by the admission of a number of new players from the 'varsity teams who are entirely ignorant of the game the team has been playing. The freshman teams at both Yale and Harvard are also much neglected in the matter of coaching there being seldom anybody around college who is able to coach and willing to give the necessary time to it. Considering these facts it is only fair to say that the game last Saturday was a very creditable...
...Cambridge has ever seen. No athletic victory has ever before called out a procession of such length, or decorations on such a scale. It was simply marvelous, so great was the enthusiasm on all sides. But above all we thank President Eliot for his speech, which, since he so seldom speaks on athletic matters, was a great part of the celebration. Those other Professors who spoke will also always be remembered when last evening is spoken of. The evening never will be forgotten by those now in college, and may it represent only the beginning of as long a line...
...especially formidable. Back of the line DeHart is playing a game at quarter which has caused him to be compared very favorably with Beecher in his best days. Speir and Mowry are both rushing strongly; they keep their feet well, and Mowry especially is a very deceptive dodger. Kell seldom fails to get his foot on the ball when it is passed back to be kicked, no matter how closely he is pressed. The tackling of the whole team is hard, clean and sure; they have a knack of bringing their man to the ground the moment they get hold...