Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...success in intercollegiate contests is a mass of nonsense. The radical difficulty which lies back of the whole situation is that undergraduates are left to do as best they may without organized conservative advice from older heads. Harvard's competitors have today systems of permanent supervision, supplied by shrewd, mature men. Harvard has nothing of this beyond what is supplied by the scattering efforts of individuals...
There is just one thing that will win the game for Harvard today and that is the most essential quality of a good team,- pluck. The critics who make it a business to weigh scores against scores, and to forecast results by shrewd comparisons, may fight the battle out beforehand and give the victory to one team or the other. But every true Harvard man will cast such considerations aside today. The past will play no part in the game with Pennsylvania. The team will go on to the field with a definite task,- to win, and that not because...
...stands at a crisis as great as that which confronted it during the Civil War: namely, whether the politics of America are to be pure and the lofty ideals of the Republic preserved, or the country allowed to fall into the hands of those strong enough, rich enough, and shrewd enough, ready to lend its government to their own principles and interests. The moment a country allows its liberty to go, all its greatness is destroyed. Surely the highest and most necessary duty of a university is to teach her sons allegiance to the state...
...would be foolnish to claim A. Brewer to be the superior of Captain Hinkey. Hinkey and Brewer are both shrewd players, both follow the ball to perfection. Hinkey is the quicker man to "size" up a play, and is better at breaking up interference, but he is not playing up to form...
...another of "The Victim to Ball" is evidently a shrewd observer of student life at Cambridge and his short tale of the fate of a garish suit of clothes has a spontaneity of effort and an agreeable originality which might profitably be imparted to more of the Advocate stories. There are a number of Harvard men we have in our mind's eye who might profit by the moral of the tale...