Word: though
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Throughout the game, the backs played with a commendable amount of snap, though there still seemed to be the old fault of either starting a little ahead of the signals and thus making a change necessary, or of starting slowly. The weakness of the Brown line unquestionably covered up a good many slow starts. Dibblee played his usual star game, and by following his interference more closely, covered much ground on end plays. Sullivan made many good gains until he was injured and forced to leave the game. Aside from his deplorable failures at goal kicking, and his fumble...
...correspondence between John Sterling and Ralph Waldo Emerson has just been published by Houghton, Miffilin and Company, together with a sketch of Sterling's life by Edward Waldo Emerson. Though Sterling and Emerson never saw each other, there was a warm friendship between them,- a friendship of letters it might be called. A likeness in what they wrote, as in the events of their lives, seemed to make them fitted for one another. Emerson had already been attracted by the other's work when he received a letter from Carlyle, telling of Sterling's admiration for him. Emerson therewith sent...
...with the erection upon the university grounds of a building for the Law School, now situated at Sixth and Chestnut streets, the final move in the plan of centralizing the various department buildings will have been made. The plans for this building are now in course of preparation, though the site has not yet been chosen...
...Though the 1900 eleven started out with light material, but one of last year's men coming out, it has improved very much of late, especially in team work. The great weakness of the team lies in the centre men, who are comparatively light in weight, but this is pretty well balanced by the quickness of their play. The chief fault of the team work is a tendency to give the play away by starting before the ball. As yet the eleven has been coached by no one but Captain Talbot, who works his men hard and keeps the team...
After starting the week poorly, the Senior eleven has made considerable improvement, though the team play is still very ragged and the defense weak. The line has been strengthened by the addition of Seaver, at left tackle. Hennen, right guard, will be unable to play for a while owing to a strained shoulder, but Thayer, who has taken his place, is playing a strong game...