Word: snap
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Sophomores have the least finished crew of the four. The men do not row together and both inboard and outboard work is very rough. Nevertheless the crew shows snap and strength and has a good chance in the race today. The order of the crew is as follows...
...score of 4 to 1. In spite of the unfavorable weather the playing on both sides was fast. The Freshmen, however, were better at every point of the game, especially in offensive work and team play. The Sophomores had a weak defense and did not play with the snap that marked the work of the Freshmen. Bennett, Lincoln and Fisher for the Freshmen, and Binger and Penhallow for the Sophomores made brilliant individual plays...
...means broad-mindedness and fairness in discussion. Just here is where intercollegiate debating may prove something of a nuisance. It exists for the purpose of winning something, and therefore the undergraduate--not the coaches--wonders whether he may not contrive "trick plays" in his argument, whether he, too, cannot snap the ball back with double passes, and in his course work he comes to you with a brief in which he has tried carefully to conceal the large part of his case. When you object that the plan is, as a brief, inadequate, that you see his little game...
J.D.Clark plays with plenty of snap and shows more spirit than any of the other candidates for the position. His enthusiasm seems to lead him into over-anxiousness at times. His weakness on low balls is counterbalanced by his ability in reaching out for wide throws. He is the best of all the candidates at coaching the infield...
Jaynes is working conscientiously but without much snap. He lacks judgement, and is not meeting the ball far enough from the base...