Word: waking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...practice of the first and second elevens yesterday afternoon was not very encouraging, During the last few minutes, to be sure, the first eleven seemed to wake up and settle down to real work, but during the greater part of the time the play was slow and spiritless. There was a great deal of fumbling and some very poor tackling. Harding played a good game for the second eleven at quarterback; he did the only really effective tackling of the whole game. Sherwin also played well; he made the prettiest rush of the afternoon, getting past...
...confessed that he had taken two machines, but while he was yet in custody another bicycle disappeared. The necessity for care still remains. Cambridge police have shown themselves incompetent to stop wholesale stealing, however officious they may be in cases of student discipline. We hope they will soon wake up to the fact that this gang of bicycle thieves must be broken...
...very trying to hear some one speak of a Harvard man whose reputation is national, perhaps even world-wide, and be obliged to admit that one has never heard of the man. If one learns nothing else at college, it is one's duty to be wide-a-wake enough to find out what eminent men are connected with Harvard, and for what such men are noted...
There need be no difficulty in raising twenty-five thousand dollars. To be sure it is probably far beyond what we can individually and personally give, but let each man consider himself a special committee of one to wake up the interest of his family and of his friends in the undertaking, and we have an indefinitely larger number of sources to draw upon...
...team has some bad defects and is especially weak behind the line. The quarter-backs have yet to learn to give good signals and to bunch their men. The half-backs must wake up, start sooner and run faster. The full back is one of the weakest positions on the team and unless some good kicker appears on Norton's soon the sophomores will...