Word: weakness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...news that the present track coaches have been engaged for two more years is certainly welcome. As it has been so often proved, a permanent system is one of the most essential factors to success in athletics, and in a branch of sport in which Harvard is comparatively weak at present, such permanence is particularly desirable. Coach Quinn showed his ability last spring when the majority of points in the field events was won against Yale for the first time since 1902. He has developed from new material men who can be counted on to make a decidedly creditable showing...
...better bestowed on efforts to acquire mastery of a true English style and in developing powers of invention. Few are those who can overcome the handicap of dialect and produce a story worthy of the name in the strange forms of tongue so affected by some writers. A weak tale is all the worse for being put into queer speech, and a good one is not bettered. It is possible that the two specimens of dialect in the present number are masterpieces, but it would take a keen judgment to detect the fact...
...before the Yale game, which will be played in the Hemenway Gymnasium at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. The work consisted of a short game between the University and second teams, in which the former was outplayed, though no score was kept. The shooting of the University forwards was weak, and the guards were not able to keep the second team from scoring frequently. The University team will probably play against Yale in the same order as in yesterday's practice...
...Pennsylvania 28 to 14, and the Harvard team has lost to Tufts, 15 to 10. Tufts has also beaten Brown twice this season, by the scores of 16 to 12 and 39 to 24. Webber will be in at left forward tonight in place of Miller. His shooting is weak but he plays a strong defensive game...
Laval's defence was weak and allowed the University forwards to shoot time and again after coming down the rink together. Several penalties were inflicted for forward passing and off-side play, and three men were sent off the rink for roughness...