Word: stronge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...runners with only an occasional kick when forced, but when they met the heavy charging of Harvard, they stubbornly fought the ground inch by inch, and never used their best runners until they had driven the ball by a kick well down. In this way they had ever a strong fresh man for a dash up the goal, and an almost infallible kicker to send the ball skimming over...
...partly played and the general strength of the opposing team ascertained. Harvard's half-backs were the strongest and were used the most. Being larger and heavier men they ran through the end-and-tackle hole rather than around. They were not built for dodging, but for straight, strong running. It may be doubted whether the positions of the half-backs, so near the quarter as they were on all the teams this year, were advisable. Yale put her men further out than either of the others, but the tendency was to stand close in to the quarter-back...
...foot-ball has taken a higher standing. It tends constantly towards hard, cool, individual play on the part of every man, the whole centered in the field captain or quarter-back. Princeton was not weaker than in previous years, but the others were stronger. Her eleven played their usual strong, well-practiced game, but the individual men with two or three exceptions were not equal to her opponents. Yale, as she always does, sent a team into the field with a dogged determination to win, and as always they played a magnificent game of foot-ball. Harvard used her experience...
...hoist that author into the position of leading novelist of the nineteenth century. It is hard to judge in a case like this, because personal taste must play so important a part in our criticisms. But I cannot agree with Mr. Parker, though I admit that his arguments are strong ones, and seem to be founded upon a more thorough study of Mr. Howells and his works than is usual with a living author at the present day. As a result of careful consideration the article is well worth a perusal...
...difference between Yale and Harvard is well brought out in their catalogue. Yale is still an old-fashioned college, overshadowed to some extent by Congregationalism, compact and a strong force for education. It is a college from which men are sent forth with the stamp of their training impressed upon them. Harvard is broad and progressive, but under its present administration a certain amount of educational force must be lost. A strong scholarly nature will get rounded and polished by a Harvard education, while at Yale he may be in danger of becoming narrowed in his sphere of activity...