Word: working
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...never been possible to assert before. Although no definite choice has been made, the men now rowing are the ones having the best chance to be selected for the final eight. Not much can be stated positively until the crew candidates among the men now playing football commence to work; but from the present outlook it would seem as if there were material in the class for an excellent crew...
...yards. Rushes by Bisbee, Ingalls, Parker and Dunn brought the play close to Roxbury's goal. Slade was pushed over. Brice kicked a goal. Score 60-0. Atwater's kick sent the ball close to Ninety-three goal but a return kick advanced the ball. The rushers did good work and soon scored. Brice kicked a goal. Score 66-0. Dunn, Slade, Parker and Ingalls did the best work. The teams were made up as follows...
...directly, yet indirectly help the cause of football here. And this is exactly what has been needed. More men have taken active interest in the sport this year than at any time perhaps in the history of college athletics, and as a result we have had hard work and good teams...
...class series upon the sport itself, there has been another result which is in the long run quite as beneficial. We refer to the reawakening of class enthusiasm. The university spirit here has among its dangers the total extinction of class feeling, and this tandency has been quietly at work for the last few years. That all class enthusiasm should be crushed out, however, seems far from desirable. We are a little apt in some ways to grow old too soon here at Harvard, and in the development of our individuality to forget that class enthusiasm when kept within proper...
...state in which Mr. Cook found it in 1872. The progressive spirit of this century has shown itself in the science of rowing, and while Americans are ahead in the science of rigging, Englishmen are probably ahead in the science of rowing, on account of their superior leg work. In 1885 Mr. Storrow paid a good deal of attention ts leg work with excellent results; since then Yale has improved her leg-work but not at the expense of other important principles...