Word: stronge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have got to work very hard this year for the championship. Nothing but the hardest kind of work will win it for us. We hear that both Princeton and Harvard have exceptionally strong teams in practice, but we don't mean to let them get away with us if we can help it. There will be no holding or slugging allowed in the game this year, so our men will be specially trained against these defects. According to the new rules we will have two referees, one to watch the ball, and the other to watch the men. Of last...
...country, with greater conveniences for athletic practice, succumbs as a matter of course to colleges which have neither its size nor its advantages. Defeat is always a disgrace, and in calling the position of Harvard in athletics disgraceful, one is not using a word that is a whit too strong. Can the blame be located? The captains of the university teams, we are certain, did their best and devoted themselves heartily to the work they had in hand. The base-ball material at the opening of last season seemed most unpromising and yet Harvard made a strong showing, owing principally...
However, with the exception of 2nd bow, no one in the boat knew of his accident, although the men must have felt that something had happened. All were rowing hard and as well as could be expected. No. 6 especially was doing wonderfully strong work...
...seems at home in this sea of words and dallies with its pollysyllabic names. The whole epic is compressed into a dozen pages; the fewer the better fare.' A somewhat weak poem in a some what far fetched metre is contributed by Mr. Sanford, and next follows a strong essay, written by Mr. Fletcher, on Zola's "L'Assommoir", sickening subject. The description of the book does it justice. The criticism of it is not quite fair to M. Zola. The French idea of art has been ably expressed and developed by M. Taine, and may be summarized...
Peet, the coach of the Columbia crew is reported to have said that this year's 'Varsity crew is fully as strong as that of last year...