Word: strength
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...association of college students and wage-earners for mutual helpfulness and the benefit derived by the student is not a whit less, if it is not even greater, than that derived by the wage earner. A proof of this is seen in the fact that the very best strength of the University has been freely spent in this service and that the union never finds serious difficulty in providing competent instructors for its classes...
Capt. McCornack played a good game. He did not try end plays, for he knew too well the strength of Cabot and Brewer, but he hammered away at the tackles, and at Hoague, who played right guard. The weakest spot in the line was between Hoague and Gould, and there Capt. McCornack most frequently sent his backs...
...Cambridge men are bigger, older and better developed physically than the members of the Yale team. Captain Shaw of the L. A. C. team, expressed surprise that the American sprinters were for the most part of light build, and said that in his opinlon strength was essential to fast sprinting...
...first game in the Harvard-Yale baseball series will be played on Holmes Field at half-past three o'clock this afternoon. Neither team will play with its full strength, but the contest promises to be a close one. Neither Whittemore nor Dean are in condition to play, and McVey will be put at shortstop. Hayes has been placed in the batting list, but is suffering from ivy poison, and there seems to be little chance that he will be able to play. Burgess will probably take his place unless Whittemore's ankle is improved sufficiently to allow his playing...
There is little to be said of the game today with Yale beyond wishing success to our nine. The record of the year scarcely warrants the expectation of victory, yet at times the nine has shown a strength which makes hope very natural. Yale, it is understood, can not put her strongest team in the field, and a united effort might well result in giving the first game of the series to Harvard. The University will demand its best work of the nine this afternoon, and in return will give it the best of good wishes and the whole-hearted...