Word: successful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...freshman class games on Holmes Field yesterday afternoon were decidedly a success. The events were fairly well contested, and the records as a rule were good. In the running broad jump E. B. Bloss made a record of 21 feet 10 inches, beating the Harvard record by 3 inches. The list of the entries would have been larger had more of the men been able to find the Secretary...
...Harvard man should bear in mind the closing words of the address: "You come to college to learn things of great value besides your games, which, after all, are secondary to your studies. But, in your games there is just one thing which you cannot do, even to win success. You cannot do one tricky or shabby thing. Translate tricky and shabby-dishonest, ungentlemanlike. Princeton is not wicked; Yale is not base. Mates, the Princeton and the Yale fellows are our brothers. Let us beat them fairly of we can, and believe that they will play the game just...
...fall races were, as a whole, a great success, and we congratulate the sophomore crew upon the excellent showing which they made in putting clear water between themselves and and of the other crews. The result shows the advantage of great strength in a barge race. This race was a good thing for Harvard boating and has reawakened an interest which will prove its value next spring when regular work is renewed...
...seemed particularly weak. The men were slow in getting through and there was a general lack of team work. The Cambridge boys began poorly but steadily improved as the game progressed. Their playing showed considerable practice and time after time they worked the old criss-cross trick with great success...
...subject after having spent years in preparation. The course has been given in answer to a universal demand for more critical knowledge of the Bible. Whetner the interest in the subject is as advanced here as in some other parts of the country will be shown by the success of this course...