Word: snap
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...under rather poor luck to be sure, but many of their errors were inexcusable, The infielders seemed bothered considerably, especially on sharp ground hits, by the dirt diamond. The backing up was poor throughout, Princeton played a game almost free from fielding errors but her work seemed to lack snap. She clearly outdid Harvard however, at every point. The men hit Downer heavily although not many times safely. King's batting and fielding were the features of the game. He made a two and a three base-hit each time bringing in two men. In the first inning Quackenboss, while...
Harvard played utterly without snap throughout the whole game. Mumford at short stop made several inexcusable errors. Henshaw's throwing was poor. Only six innings were played as Andover had to take an early train. Appended is the score...
...freshman class is an entire innovation and it remains to be seen how it will be carried out. It will certainly be of service to those who come here to work, and may be a stumbling block in the way of those who wish to take only "snap" courses...
That such a course would be popular, there can be no doubt, and to remedy its being taken as "a snap," it might be well to count it as one of the higher courses in philosophy, requiring one or more preliminary courses as an introduction...
...even more successful than its predecessors. The affair had almost the nature of a reception. Everybody was in full dress. All were ready to applaud whenever provocation offered. In spite of the fact that the clubs had been travelling steadily for a week, the pieces were given with greater snap, if with less care, than in New York. Encores were demanded, particularly of the banjo men, until the programme was nearly doubled. The Glee Club was assisted by Honore, '88, president of the club last year, who sang the solos in "Imogene Donabue" and "A Capital Ship." The success...