Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cummings; leader, S. E. Farwell. The other members are Abbott, Batchelder, Battelle, Bennett, Bisbee, Broughton, Burditt, Cary, Dunn, Hallowell, Hand, Harrison, Henshaw, Hoadley, Howard, Jose, Keyes, Marvin, Nutter, Post, Purrington, H. B. Smith, Sewall, Strong, Sturgis, Sears, Waters, Webster, Whyte, Wilder. As usual the club is rather weak in first tenors and strong in first bases. It has proved more enterprising than the '92 club, which was not ready for regular practice till after Christmas...
...Elise" is concluded in this number. The story is not up to the usual standard of the Advocate; it is weak and perhaps a trifle too sentimental...
...seems necessary to call attention to a weak point in our athletic system which has so far escaped the attention of the Athletic committee. A man who intends to enter for the games of the Athletic association is expected to be examined a day or two before the meeting. If he desires to be examined earlier he finds himself barred out by the great number of men who have signed before him and he has consequently to wait till the last moment. Now in the course of a man's training he is obliged in his trial heats to exert...
...hurt. Harvard opened the second half in a lively manner gaining twenty-five yards on rushes by Lee and Blanchard. B. Trafford soon kicked McBride returned, and B. Trafford soon kicked again. Morrison fumbled, and Cumnock fell on the ball. Saxe's poor play was followed by Morrison's weak punt. Lee gained ten yards, Saxe three. and on the third down B. Trafford tried to kick a goal from the thirty-five yard line, but failed, owing to the strong head wind...
...Tompkins, of the '84 Yale eleven speaks as follows of the present Yale team: "Yale is all right behind the rush line, but in the line she is weak. The players are lazy and do not go forward with the vim and spirit which has characterized the work of Yale in previous years...