Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Brewer '96 has shown splendid form in the quarter mile and also the broad jump. Shea and Russell will be good men with the hammer and shot. The team is especially weak at the weights this year. Sayre and Whitehead from Exeter have records in the sprints and hurdles which prove them men of considerable ability. Garcelin shows good form in the sprints and Duffield will soon join his colleagues in the short distances. Riker L. S. and Arnold '96 run well in the half mile. The list of fair performers is large, but too numerous to name individually...
...tide in 22m. 10s. They rowed only at a 33 stroke. This is good time. The Harvard men are all in good condition. The freshman crew is rowing very well and gives the 'varsity good practice. The men are all in good condition and ought to make a splendid showing June 30. Columbia freshmen are here. They sank in their shell a few days ago and spoiled their boat so they had to send to New Haven for a class boat which they are using now. The Yale Freshmen are expected today...
...ever since he entered college not merely a member of the team, but one of those most actively and earnestly interested in the team's success, he is the kind of a captain who will put his whole soul into his work. The last captain has set him a splendid example to work up to and we believe that if the college gives Captain Thompson the support that he deserves, the success of the team of 1893 will not be second to that of the glorious team...
...position in the middle region of the country, where it stands as a new Harvard, Yale, or Johns Hopkins, attending to that expensive highest instruction which the smaller colleges cannot of themselves supply; all these things must lead a lover of learning to welcome the new foundation as a splendid addition to the educational resources of the country, and may well make any man eager to serve upon its staff...
From childhood up, he held the first place in the circle which surrounded him. His faculties were large and splendid. His imagination was grand, sombre, sometimes appalling and his humor is as genuine as it is fantastic...