Word: surer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...expected that Harvard would conform to the preposterous conditions which she proposes, and it seems extremely ill-advised just now to complicate the already difficult football problem. If it were Yale's deliberate intention to prevent a game next year, she could scarcely have gone about it in a surer way. Harvard men will be in perfect accord with the spirit of the letter in which their athletic committee has replied to Yale. They will wait with eagerness for further developments at New Haven, and in the interval of uncertainty all final judgment must be withheld. For the present...
...yard line was wonderful and provoked more enthusiasm from the crowd than has been exhibited for a long time. Fairchild's fine kicks were also well applauded. Both Foster and Beale were tried at quarterback and Foster did by far the better work. His passing was quicker and surer than Beale's and he tackled more...
Kedzie as catcher is much better than he was at third base, where his faults were "fighting" the ball, failing to judge a good bound on ground balls and weak throwing. His throwing to second is much surer than it was from third to first. He has too great a tendency to allow balls to go through him. This will be remedied by practice. He is a fair and lucky batter and fair base runner...
...investigators in this field are mostly foreigners. Berthollot and Thomsen have been the two chemists who have given this science its importance. The former is a Frenchman, a very brilliant but rather inaccurate worker; the latter is Dane, and, though more slow, is far surer in his work...
...published by two Harvard papers which argue that since the number of students at Yale from Connecticut and New England is nearly stationary and the per cent from the west is increasing, while the per cent. of such men at Harvard is more nearly stationary, Yale is laying a surer foundation for future growth than Harvard. Now the fact is that Yale started much ahead of Harvard in the west. In 1820 we did not have a single student from beyond the Alleghanies, while Yale had many from beyond the Hudson river and even from the Western Reserve. Since that...