Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next game occurs in Cambridge on June 23. If Harvard wins it, the championship comes to Cambridge. If Yale is victorious, Harvard will still have a chance to win in the game at New Haven on the 26th June...
Ninety-one showed a wonderful improvement over their play of Tuesday, and if they continue to play in such good form they may win the championship after all. Their throwing is still weak, and most men do not body-check well; but there was a noticeable improvement in this point. Every man played with a snap and vigor which is in striking contrast to the usual listless work of the team. Amory, Walcott and Everett did especially good work on the defence. Davis played home instead of defence as usual, and made the only goal of the game...
...powerful. Time was when I thought Howells was in the lead, but I think James has beaten him altogether. Howells has made a formula and swallowed it, and it has stuck to him. James looks at the world instead of a swinging black ball of geometrical proportions. Still, I think Howells will change his ideas. He seems too clever a man to stick to them. The recent discoveries regarding the Russian school of novelists has set England to noting them very widely. I am very much taken up with them. Tolstoi is extraordinary; he is wonderful; but I think...
...think could hardly exist were not the colleges drawn together as they now are. The athletic life which every-where engages lively interest, and which affords endless opportunity for competition, comes surely to the surface, while the intellectual life in which competition is uncertain and unsatisfactory sinks beneath, but still exerts a far reaching and, we believe, an unimpaired influence on the community at large. We see in these contests which arouse ambition and which render the existence of a large number of physically perfect men absolutely necessary, advantages before which the disadvantages sink in insignificance, and among the first...
HOLMES HINKLEY, A. M., tutor for Harvard. Few hours still unengaged. 14 Kirkland Place, Cambridge...