Word: slump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spend a week at Myopia have been changed, and the first year outfit is remaining in Cambridge to secure the necessary mood for the game with the Yale Freshmen at Soldiers Field a week from yesterday. After the successful season of the 1931 aggregation, any danger of a slump due to change in training conditions is felt to be obviated by the continued sojourn in Cambridge...
...meet the University nine on Soldiers Field, while the Crimson team will go over to Medford to play Tufts at the end of the week. These contests should provide the Harvard players a chance to recover a long lost batting and fielding eye and come out of their prolonged slump before the Yale series next week...
...must be all very discouraging. At times the Claw, or the Blue Pencil, or whoever the chief inquisitor is, must slump back in his chair and say: "After all, what is 'great'? It is fair to the members of the Crime Club, is it fair to posterity for me to sit here and select the 'great'? Man is fallible. What if some mute, inglorious, but potential Has Rohmer is smothered beneath my own relish of Mary Roberts Rinehart? When my last manuscript is read, and I meet the Great Judge of the manuscript of life, shall I have made...
...seventh loss suffered by the Harvard team since it went into a batting and fielding slump nine contests ago, and the worst defeat suffered by a University baseball team since Pennsylvania gave a Harvard team a 26 to 7 trouncing way back...
...marked batting slump which the Harvard diamond forces have taken during the last few clashes has caused Coach F. G. Mitchell to try out several different combinations in an attempt to build up a more powerful offensive. The left and right field assignments have been quite undecided of late, and tomorrow's game will most probably find two newcomers to these parts on the field. E. R. Todd '29, a regular on the second University team who was recently promoted to the field squad, is likely to alternate with A. G. Whitney '29 in the left field region, usually covered...