Word: snap
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Montreal men will score a victory, for their summer practice cannot fail to tell against the three months of inaction through which our team has passed. The recent work of the college players has, however, been so effective that they may fairly be expected to exhibit something of the snap and energy which characterized their work as a team last season. In recognition of the honors which the team of last year won for college, the students ought to make it a point to be present at the game this afternoon...
...candidates for the 'varsity and freshman elevens played a practice game yesterday afternoon. Both sides played with considerable snap and energy, and several brilliant rushes were made...
...YORK UNIVERSITY GAME.The team went at once to New York, and on Friday played against New York University in the final game for the collegiate championship. Our team was the same as on the preceding day, and played with much snap after the stiffness of travel had worn off. The game was at the end very one-sided, our team scoring almost at pleasure. The result was 6 goais to 0 in our favor. This gives the college championship to Harvard, and the college will receive a handsome silk pennant from the Inter-collegiate Lacrosse Association...
...such a time," etc., etc. Now it seems as if we had heard a tale very similar to this before; the great foot-ball eleven last year which only succumbed to Princeton after a hard struggle, was declared to be "incompetent," "slothful," and "reluctant to play with any snap," etc., etc. Their last year's crew was decried in just the same way; and yet the worse the reports that gain credence about Yale teams, the stronger the teams prove to be. We do not deem it necessary to warn our crew that they have a strong, yes, a very...
...From now onward the Harvard student meets the full elective system, and has no prescribed studies. If the sees fit, he may take Hebrew, French, Music, and Botany. If he wants however, something that is not simply incongrous, but in the nature of a "snap" he might drop the Hebrew and by little shifting around, keeping an eye open to the avoidance of conflicts in his weekly schedule, take French, Music, and Botany, and in place of the Hebrew, a course in elementary Fine Art where "practice in Drawing, including the use of water-colors, forms a considerable part...