Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number of years. Neither nine seems to have displayed unusual strength in its early games and neither appears from a comparison of scores to have asserted any marked superiority over the other. The game should be a hard fought contest in which Harvard may be forced to play a stiff up-hill game although the prospects seem slightly in her favor provided she bats as well as she has of late...
...that "the cheek of every true Harvard man should blush for shame" for such an occurrence, and that such conduct threatens the very existence of the lecture system of instruction, the affair becomes more comic than its perpetrators could possibly have hoped. When we are grave they call us stiff-necked and blase; when we come down to a perfectly harmless piece of folly they magnify it to an outrage and still call us children. Considering the character of the trick, I cannot imagine that it should have been conceived in any spirit but that of harmless fun-a spirit...
Criticisms of the principals in the play would be now a little premature. It may be said, however, that the two chief parts, those of Athalie and Joad are very ably taken by Miss Cushing and Professor de Sumichrast. Most of the supernumeraries are still rather awkward and stiff, but improvement is made with every rehearsal...
...Willing at punting, often gaining 20 and 30 yards in the return of punts. In kicking Harvard's line held firmly and the ball was never in danger of being blocked. Lawrence did brilliant work in kicking goals from touchdowns and though six of the goals were against a stiff breeze, he succeeded in kicking eight out of nine. Lawrence, Peyton, Talbot and Brayton made long gains through Pennsylvania's centre on tackle and guard plays; Brayton in particular played a fine game on the defensive as well as the offensive. At centre, Kasson played a brilliant game...
...because of their nearness, and more especially because they are beyond the reach of the high run of tides, which sometimes covered the old shooting platform three or four inches deep. The new house is a more permanent structure and is fitted with all necessary convenfences. The traps were stiff and needed adjustment, but will be working perfectly very shortly...