Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...intercollegiate championship series and was a much easier game than had been expected. Harvard's team-play was very good and on the attack the combinations were especially well worked out. The University team showed better stick-work than in any previous game this season and was superior to Hobart in every respect, especially in endurance...
...Freshmen's batting was superior to that of Andover. Sullivan, who began the game as catcher for the Freshman team, injured his finger in the beginning of the second inning and was unable to continue playing. Both catchers allowed a good many stolen bases, and McKean was weak in holding third strikes...
...Freshman lacrosse team defeated Rindge Manual Training School on Soldiers Field yesterday by the score of 5 to 1. The Freshmen won through superior team-work, in which Rindge was lamentably weak. Bail played the best game for the Freshmen, while Webb did the best work for Rindge...
...general interest in scholarship is a far greater and far more difficult matter. It cannot be done merely by raising the standard for degree, for that is merely raising the minimum. A minimum requirement can never be really high nor act as an incentive to exertion for men of superior capacity; and it is not impossible that by constantly harping upon the minimum we have actually lessened the desire for excellence. We are tending in America to make a fetish of degrees. Moreover, in conferring the degree itself we are in danger of relying too much on mechanical rating...
...Severn, from Greensbury Point lighthouse to the boathouses, winning by two lengths of open water. The time of the University crew was 11 minutes, 16 and two-fifths seconds, the Navy finished in 11 minutes and 26 seconds. Both crews were evenly matched physically, Harvard winning through superior rowing ability...