Word: weak
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...what it may be. So far as we know there are two reasons why we continually meet with defeat: first, that our teams are not so carefully managed or disciplined as they ought to be; secondly, that the miserable, half-hearted support the college gives the teams is so weak that it is really as much of a discouragement as an aid. In this great university of ours there is certainly as good or better material for athletic purposes than in any other student body in the land; the faulty lies in the manner in which this is managed...
Dartmouth, with the exception of G. Nettleton, played a weak fielding game. They failed to do anything with the bat again, excepting G. Nettleton, who did well...
...spending money then they once were, is still very low as compared with that in America. Rent, food and clothes are all cheap, and there is not the fashion, as with us to be lavish, so that the competition in expenditure of which so many well-meaning but weak minded American undergraduates are the victims, is practically unknown. A thousand dollars a year is the figure now generally given in estimation of the ordinary expense at a "crack" American college; and probably a considerable part of this is to be attributed to the general lavishness prevailing outside. The tone...
...Yale freshmen were defeated by Williamston Seminary, Saturday, by a score of 7 to 4. The batting of the Yale freshmen was weak, and their fielding was far from good...
...errors they succeeded in making two more, thus making the score 4 to 3 to Yale's favor. In the eighth and ninth innings, however, Yale got in some hard hitting, and aided by Gunderson's very wild pitching made four runs, while Brown failed to score. Brown was weak at the bat, and with the exception of Basset and Rhett, played poorly in the field. Yale batted quite heavily, but in the field they failed to show the sharpness and accuracy of last year's nine. On the whoie, it looks as if Harvard could look forward...