Word: weaknesses
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Some very goods races may be looked for at the freshman races this fall. Ninety-two has sent a number of unusually promising men on to the track both in short and long-distance running; yet she has not filled in our weak places as might have been hoped. Jumping, pole-vaulting, putting the shot and throwing the hammer are fine openings for new men. We were more or less weak in most of these events last year; we are still weaker this. The number of hurdle racers, too, is smaller than it should be. There is a good deal...
...mass meeting of the students of Tufts College decided to discontinue intercollegiate football on account of the weak state of the team and lack of support. A series of class games has been arranged...
...evident from yesterday's game that the eleven must begin earnest work at once. The fumbling of the backs was demoralizing to the rushers, and the wretched work of the rush line made good playing impossible for the backs. All the rushers were miserably weak in holding, and while it is some excuse for them that they could not use their arms as formerly, it was not enough to justify the wretched playing of yesterday. None of the rushers broke through on the half-backs at all; right end and tackle were especially bad in this respect. No one ever...
...foreign policy of the present administration has been weak and unpatriotic. a.- The President failed to act under retaliatory law passed by congress in 1887.- Speech of Benjamin F. Butler, Aug. 31, 1888. b.- The administration has been generally inefficient.- James G. Blaine (in American Magazine Sept...
...averages of the players in last spring's games is of interest in comparing the work of the Harvard nine with that of the Yale and Princeton teams. As the table shows our nine fielded wretchedly, with the exception of a few players. In batting, Harvard was extremely weak, the hits of our players being made mainly in the games with Princeton. Five Yale players and one Princeton man rank, in the average of base hits, higher than our heaviest batsman, Willard; while the majority of the names of Harvard players appear at the bottom of the list. McConkey...