Word: strength
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...choir sang "O give thanks unto the Lord," by Jackson; "Awake, put on thy strength," by Stainer; "Teach me thy ways," by Giovanni Grace...
...manifesto of the Princeton Foot-ball association published yesterday adds no real strength to the attitude Princeton has already assumed. There are still, unexplained contradictions in her position...
...freshman football teams of the past three years have established a precedent which must not be broken. At the same time our team must work if they would succeed. The fact that very little has been heard of Yale's freshman team this year is no criterion of their strength. We may be sure that they will work to win, and that is more than half the game. The presence-of 'varsity men too, must not inspire undue confidence in our eleven. There is no reason why the team if rightly used should not win; but too much self-confidence...
...been trained to play a hard game for an hour and a half and the tremendous efforts of the first part seemed to exhaust them. Princeton, on the contrary, has played a full game and more every day in practice, and consequently seemed to improve in strength and skill proportionately as our team weakened...
...question to what was due Harvard's weakening in the last third of the game but the great fault seemed to be that the men were not trained to play such a long and hard game. For a time the Harvard team played a game remarkble both for its strength steadiness and quickness, and if they could have kept it up Princeton would surely have been beaten. It was plain, however, that the strain on the men was too great. At Princeton the men are required to play for all they are worth for two hours every...