Word: weak
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cheer. A few Brown rooters in a compact mass completely out-did us. By reserving Section 32 behind the band for University men until the game begins the H. A. A. could avoid the scattered cheering of Saturday. But that is not enough. When the University singing is so weak it cannot be heard above the band on the other side of the Stadium there is shown a deplorable lack of energy throughout the crowd. If Harvard is to sing at all let it be a real song. And let such an excellent example as Brown set be listened...
Honour is weak, praise droops ingloriously...
...cheapening of the value of an "H." But a tennis team consists ordinarily of six players, almost never more than this number. Six more letter wearers out of two thousand is not many. As against the advantages obtained by so raising the dignity of tennis, this principle criticism appears weak...
...student to a scholarship, regard shall be had to (1) his literary and scholastic attainments, (2) his fondness for and success in manly outdoor sports, such as cricket, football, and the like, (3) his qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship, and (4) his exhibition during the schooldays of moral force of character, and of instincts to lead and take an interest in his schoolmates." Mr. Rhodes suggests that (2) and (3) should be decided in any school or college by the votes of fellow students...
...rounded Ithacan team included several stars besides Captain Dresser. K. A. Mayer lived up to expectations by winning both the quarter-mile and half-mile. Smith also chalked up a double victory in both the hurdle events, followed each time by his running mate, J. M. Watt. Cornell was weak in field events, only securing 1 1-2 points by Ramsay's tying for fourth place in the high-jump, but her supremacy in track events was more than sufficient...