Word: strains
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...elevens balance in proved strength about as nearly as any two football machines could. Needless to say, the situation is tense, and, although we believe that the feeling betwen the two universities has never been better, all who are deeply interested in the outcome cannot help but feel the strain...
...wildness of both Hitchcock and Frye, who between them gave 11 bases on balls, and to the poor support which they received from the rest of the team. Penn had men on bases in every inning, due principally to passes, and this shows to some extent the strain under which the Harvard team played throughout the game. The fact that only two of Penn's 12 runs were earned indicates that Harvard did not play nearly so well as the previous games of the season should warrant...
...That man, negligent because he had already won his letter, lost the University a championship by reason of the loss of playing power and general demoralization resulting. Fortunately the other defeats were free from any blights; the baseball one was to be expected, for a team playing under the strain of upholding a record of successive victories is always liable to a sudden slump; track was half expected, and the performance of many of the men was worthy of congratulation...
...covered field, which will be inconvenient to both spectators and players. The abandonment of spring games will take away an excellent source of exercise for many men, while the long fall and winter season means weaker teams and inferior playing, because of the short time for training and the strain of many games...
...this day and generation for just such an organization as it is proposed to form tonight. There probably never was a period when the art of government was so important to our nation as now. The tremendous agitation of all sorts of social and economic questions creates an enormous strain on the machinery of government; the doubt in which are held many of our traditional forms of government subjects them to great pressure; here indeed is an urgent demand for scientific treatment of political topics. Without becoming too academic the club can give to the passion-clouded issues...