Word: towards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...those fast flying years when they were themselves at old Harvard, there is apparent today throughout the University, an explicable feeling that is in the very air of Cambridge; among the men on the various athletic teams as well as among the undergraduates at large. A lifeless, listless attitude toward everything; a "we can't-help-it" spirit that is sickening. In short a total lack of real, whole souled enthusiasm...
Harvard won a championship game from Princeton on Holmes field Saturday afternoon with the score of 4 to 3. Owing to a threatened storm the audience was comparatively small. The college men turned out in large numbers and under an efficient leader cheered well, doing much toward winning the game. The effect of the enthusiasm was plainly shown by the way in which the nine worked during the eighth inning. Harvard won the game more by a streak of good luck than anything else. The two errors made by Princeton in the seventh cost them the game. Harvard's batting...
...slightest effort to play. In the following two innings Yale batted the ball over the field or made the circuit of the bases on Wood's wild pitches. In the fourth inning Brown went in to pitch and kept Yale down fairly well. Affairs reached such a state toward the end of the third inning that the Yale captain in order to make the defeat as easy as possible for Harvard ordered a base runner whenever he reached third base, not to come in on Wood's wild pitches...
...Cricket Club an opportunity to show their appreciation of the treatment accorded them. The cricket team of the University of Pennsylvania is among the strongest in this country, and their comparatively easy victory was not unexpected. Notwithstanding this, however, such trips as that of Saturday to Pennsylvania go far toward strengthening the hold which cricket has already gained at Harvard...
...varsity players will be allowed to play with the freshmen. It will, therefore be seen that Yale will have almost every advantage on her side. In spite of all this, however, Harvard should have strong chances for success. Careful work during the next three days will go far toward winning the game, if every man does his part heartily and conscientiously. No class since the present seniors were freshmen have beaten the Yale freshmen in both games. It remains for Ninety-two to re-establish this record...