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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...inability to get over old habits of slowness and clumsiness. Hall, right end, is a hard and intelligent worker and covers his end of the line very well, except for a tendency to go in at line plays too soon and thereby to leave the field clear for any sort of fake around his end. He is a hard tackler, but often overruns his man in going down under a punt. Practically the same faults are to be found in Sargent at left end. Also, his speed has been so greatly impeded by injuries as to make him of little...
...backing and enthusiasm the University can give. To that end the University band should be immediately re-organized; the mass-meetings in the Union should begin now; there ought to be frequent processions of the College to the practice; and there should be cheering and singing of the right sort at practice and at every game. The cheering Saturday was well-nigh worthless. The leaders should be men of enthusiasm and vigor-not merely individuals who wave their arms in front of us; and they should be under efficient superintendence. Now is the time to imbue the team with...
Samuel Henshaw, "Assistant in Entomology and Librarian at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, learned in the zoologists' subjects of study and in his books, and an accomplished curator for collections of either sort...
...editors. There is scarcely a dull page in it. The editorials are well written and do not force the laugh too much. The drawings--particularly the centrepage--are executed with exceptional ability and are appropriate to the subjects; and the quibs and longer pieces of satire possess a sort of spontaneity that has become of late very rare. The "Guide to Courses," "Baedeker's Harvard" and "Chem. 3," although none of them are essentially new, nevertheless are more than justified by the originality of their treatment. The last named particularly is pre-eminently amusing and provokes a laugh without begging...
...upon the individual and upon the spirit of the institution is not difficult to see. With diffidence and deservedness carried to an extreme, the opportunities to appreciate new sides in the nature of an acquaintance--which are only to be discerned after considerable time and may be of a sort to make him a fast friend--are thrown away; and the splendid discipline that comes to the man who weeds out ill founded prejudices is not gained...