Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...they can be a strong batting as well as a strong fielding nine. They must by no means neglect fielding practice, for without constant work good play in the field is almost impossible. It might also be suggested that, if they should play nines which are stronger rather than weaker than themselves, the next game with Yale would turn out differently...
...these days, when college discipline is managed with such precision, and the unhappy student who enters No. 5 is passed on from room to room, as his iniquities grow larger and his excuses weaker, until he comes out of the sieve feeling very small indeed, - in these dismal times it is refreshing to look back to the happy days of our fathers, when postal cards were not invented, when the Registrar was unheard of, and the Dean troubled not the dreams of Freshmen...
...great; sometimes, however, it happens in college that, by reason of his peculiar fitness, a man is selected to take a certain office; if such a one resigns because the society is in a weak condition, he should remember that his resignation cannot fail to make that society weaker still...
...Harvard had gone into the race without proper preparation, and were incapable of doing much more than paddle long before the race was over, but the magnificent efforts of the sound men saved the crew and college from the disgrace of being actually beaten by a weaker-manned boat. My scrap-book does not mention Harvard's colors in this race, - an omission which Mr. Alexander Agassiz, who pulled bow, can perhaps supply...
...whole, we may be well satisfied with the result; especially, on comparing it with the first game last year. The Yale Nine were beaten, twelve to two, by the Hartfords, a much weaker Nine than the Bostons. Had our Nine been able to keep up their playing of the first five innings, we might have returned better satisfied; they excelled rather in striking than in fielding, making as many base hits as the Bostons. We thought that the Harvards showed rather less nerve and pluck in playing an up-hill game than we have been led to expect from them...