Word: strength
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...them. The result was favorable. The Yale and Harvard base-ball teams met on more friendly terms than they ever had before, and indications pointed to a continuance of the good feeling begun in the contest for that championship; but either the chill of fall weather or the strength of the Harvard eleven has blasted the feeble growth which the spring had nurtured so tenderly, and now strife has returned...
...mark the steady improvement which is characterizing the work published in this paper since the beginning of the college year. More than anywhere else has the Advocate improved in its editorial columns. The editorials are written with much care and in very good taste, and are notable for the strength and vigor of their style and the uncompromising tone which they take against what the editorial staff recognize as evil in our college community. The comments on football well deserve careful consideration and the points against the formation of a new sophomore literary society are excellently taken...
...Ordinary people saw a magnificent exhibition of cultivated strength and beautiful daring, with very few and very slight casualities, except in a single instance; they saw a dash and courage and enthusiasm that made one think better of the mortal part of human nature; and in the end a group of eager, flushed, panting young men, exhausted somewhat, of course, with such tremendous physical effort, but bright of eye, clear of voice, and as fine to look upon, in spite of awkward garb, as any heroic figures of triumphant Greek athletes...
...forced and frigid rules of conventional mannerism, in good, hearty, honest out bursts of delight, is not outside the missionary spirit. It helped to maugurate or to increase among so many, at least, a better understanding of what the body can reach in fleetness, in dexterity, in strength and in endurance; and in spite of the shock to fastidiousness of a little bruising and a little dust, and a very little blood, it gave a glimpse of the possibilities of the corporeal human nature, which was as beautiful...
...matter of course foot-ball is still the most important subject of college discussion, and the games of Saturday and Thanksgiving Day are awaited with an absorbing interest by all. The strength of our eleven is a matter of debate. We have had no real opportunity for judging of its strength from the fact that in every game it has played so far, either our team has been materially weakened by the absence of some of its best men, or the opposing team has been changed very decidedly in its make-up, from the games in which it has played...