Word: sharpers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Athletic Association had its first winter meeting yesterday afternoon, and in eight minutes from the close of the "tug-of-war," The Herald was on the street with a full account of the entire proceedings. Sixty minutes later The Echo, true to its name, echoed the report of its sharper and smarter contemporary. - Boston Herald...
...radical changes which have lately been made in the rules and regulations of the University, compared with the "revised" rules of a hundred and fifty years ago bring old Harvard into much sharper contrast with the college of to day than perhaps any other method of comparison. Many of these old laws have figured in the historical accounts of the Anniversary, but a number of them have been passed over which are curious and interesting, and may be worth transcribing here...
...return to the old cry of delay, both at the beginning and in calling events. The custom pursued in the Technology meetings of calling each event at a stipulated time despite possible absences, might not result in a satisfactory solution of the problem, but there is little doubt that sharper, more interesting work would be elicited by this plan. It is also to be hoped that tumultuous expressions of approval or disapproval will be restrained to the utmost limit. We feel enough respect for our own opinion to believe that if these suggestions are followed the last meeting will prove...
...functions of citizenship. Nearly all, it may be said, have an appreciation of the responsibilities which are to rest upon them as educated men. Perhaps there is no necessity for urging the Harvard student to turn his course of study into these channels. It may be that no sharper spur is needed to drive him on to the performance of a duty which must not be shirked. Yet we may learn a sombre lesson from the clipping from the Boston Globe which we print on the first page...
...superior running powers of some of the '86 men, and also by the fact that after the first fifteen minutes '86 played Rankin in the rush line, and dispensing with a full-back, thus gained one man over the juniors. The rush-line work was a good deal sharper and better than that of the Yale team when they played Technology this fall, and infinitely better than anything our university eleven of last year ever displayed, thus showing how much good this plan of class games has accomplished in the way of bringing out new men and developing...