Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Longwood batted first, and began the innings with Bixby and L. Mansfield at the bat, Ellis and Barrow doing the trundling. Barrow begun well by bowling L. Mansfield on his first ball, but when Wright joined Bixby the trouble began. Wright batted with even more than his usual skill, and succeeded in obtaining the highest score of the day, a well earned 43. Dutton supplemented this score by a careful twenty, and Bixby and and Hubbard aided towards making the creditable total of 96. The bowling of the Harvard team was on the whole not up to last year...
...followed soon afterwards. The victorious sophomores left their shell at the Union boat house, and returned to Cambridge in carriages. As a whole, considering the wind and rough water, the race was a good one. The sophomores rowed a very pretty race, and proved that besides strength and individual skill perfect time is necessary to make a winning crew...
...before the match with Pennsylvania, the team went to the grounds of the Wellington club, on Saturday last, and shot a practice match. Contrary to the expectation of those who know the relative strength of the two teams, the contest proved very close, and the Harvard team showed unexpected skill. The Wellington team ranks among the strongest in the country, and the excellent showing made against it augurs well for the success of Harvard in the coming championship match. The summary follows...
...desire for victory is so strong that professional methods creep in, and disputes and charges of trickery constantly occur. Rowing, baseball, cricket, and lacrosse are reasonably safe, but football is extremely dangerous, while sparring is in many cases an exhibition of brute force, rather than a contest of skill. The main work of a student is to get an education, and athletics should be no more important before graduation than afterwards. No good comes from intercollegiate contests, and better results will follow if the competition is confined to members of this college. The committee recommend the adoption of the following...
...desire to call the attention of the managers of the nine to the inadequate police arrangements at Jarvis at every ball game. The inordinate longing of the average mucker to "steal in" never ceases, and he is eager to put his skill in this line into operation at every opportunity. The result is that a score or so of the Cambridge youth gain access to the grounds every afternoon that the nine plays. A little more care ought to be exercised until the nine gets on Holmes. A couple more policemen would obviate the difficulty, and the cost would...