Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...edge of doing so. And that after all is about as much as can be expected after the rather poor showing of the early fall. It augurs well loss the Princeton game. For if Harvard was on the very edge of real effectiveness last Saturday against a relatively weak team, it is all the more likely to hit its stride a week later against a strong team. The College has known all fall that the football team had power; it has merely been a question when that power should become active and concentrated rather than latent and diversified...
...Harvard supporters Saturday afternoon was marred not so much by defeat at the hands of a better team as by the less excusable mismanagement of those minor features which have become so important at football games. Admittedly the University eleven was weak, but its weakness was due to actual inferiority; unfortunately the same explanation can not be offered for the band and the songs and the singing...
...should be at this point in the schedule with only two weeks intervening before the Princeton game. One finds it hard to remember when at this time of year the Harvard tackles were ever as completely or consistently boxed as on Saturday or when the Harvard tackling was as weak and sloppy...
...midst of familiar surroundings has a fairly definite advantage. Papyrus, for instance, used to turf under foot, will be running on a dirt track--this afternoon. Taking these things into consideration, always assuming that Zev or My Own can hold his speed for the full distance, the weak-spirited may pluck up their courage. Doctor Holmes, after all, may net have been infallible...
...singer, who is employed to compromise a husband whose wife thinks she wants a divorce. The play develops into a battle between Rose Briar, who wants Mr. Paradee, and Mrs. Valentine, who wants not only Mr. Paradee, but Mr. Valentine besides. She also craves attention, and having thus three weak spots, she falls an easy prey to Rose Briar, who has only one. Nevertheless, the salvoes of baby-talk that passed between them and their several male satellites almost finished the Playgoer, and if Miss Bushnell had not looked perfectly charming, and Mr. Mark Kent, as Mr. Valentine, been entirely...