Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unfortunate that the eleven have arranged for so few matches before the championship games. Although an opposing eleven may be weak, nevertheless the 'Varsity team can attain harmony of play as a team and systematic methods from matches with inferior teams. We hope that the management will make good use of the time left before the Columbia game, and will arrange several desirable matches...
...falling on the ball, and thus often make bad fumbles which is, as experience has proved, a fatal mistake. The players especially noticeable are the half backs for their running and dodging, and the quarter back for his quickness. The rusher line is lively but on the whole rather weak though composed of heavy men. These are the impressions created upon a foot ball man by a careful observation of a practice game...
...elocution. There are several sections which recite at different times, so that each student will find at least one of the sections suiting his own convenience. Mr. Jones is an able instructor, and puts pains and enthusiasm into his work. The department of elocution at Harvard is at present weak. If students would in a body feel the necessity of making most of the facilities offered, we feel sure the faculty would be obliged to take steps in order to bring up elocution to its proper standing in the college curriculum. As matters now stand, only...
...expression is as much an indication of imbecile intellect as of caustic invidiousness and of childish attempt to gain a Delphic credence. It can be done with no more justice in the present instance than that one should take a poem of Byron's lighter vein and pronounce Byron weak, or that one should call Longfellow childish because he had once allowed his Muse to play about the heartstrings of youth...
Iowa, it is stated, has so many colleges - almost thirty - that they have all been kept more or less weak, not one of them advancing to the rank of a thorough university. This ridiculous multiplication of colleges is a crying evil in other States as well as in Iowa. If three-quarters of the colleges in America were utterly abolished, and their value and endowments devoted to the enlargement of the remaining colleges and the improvement of the public schools, it would be of incalculable benefit to the people...