Word: wanting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...members of the class of '92 who wish photographs of Seymour Howell, deceased, his father would be glad to furnish as many as are desired. Will the men who want photographs kindly send their names immediately to F. H. Gade, 5 Berkeley Street...
...condition that the manager of the nine is obliged again to ask the men to keep away from the bench. It not only interferes with the scorers, but also cannot help having somewhat of a demoralizing effect upon the nine. It is not asking too much of those who want to see the game to take their seats with everyone else behind the ropes...
...total number of the Harvard points from this reckoning is seventy to forty-two for Yale. This will be seen to favor Harvard in many doubtful cases. The popular feeling will hardly support so large an estimate, but for want of more detailed knowledge of the Yale men, who may be strong second and third men, but not winners, no more accurate calculations could be made...
...Rustin, Carter, Cole, Davis being 'varsity players, but this was no excuse for the exhibition of ball playing that '95 put up. It was wretchedly slow and lifeless, everyone being very deliberate in his movements. If this excessive care had made their fielding good, one could have endured the want of snap which so enlivens a game, but it did not and it never will in a game with such a team as Yale's. Whiting's muff of an easy liner, Dreyfus's ridiculous errors in left, McAdams' passed balls, Whittemore's two fumbles and Gilmore's slow...
...want to add one more word to the Ninety-four nine. The object of yesterday's game was to see whether they could play better ball than the freshmen. Now killing time is not playing base ball. If a game is to be won, it must be won by squarely superior playing, not by delaying the game in the shameless way in which the Ninety-four captain dragged out yesterday's match intentionally...