Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Human character can be radically changed. Under good influences, the worst of men can learn to loathe the things which were formerly his delight...
...have cited the existence of this impression as an indication of the lack of unanimity in times past. It makes no difference whether there were actual grounds for this idea, or not; the chief fact is that it has existed. Personally, I do not believe that even in the worst days of Harvard athletics, before Mr. Pierce came to college, captains consciously allowed themselves to be influenced by favoritism, although the result of their selection may have justified a contrary surmise: but what is evident to any one who has watched Harvard athletics for twenty years is that the enormous...
...reached the height that it did in the last three weeks. The men who represented the college in the debate with Yale on last Friday were among the very best thinkers and speakers in the college, and the undergraduates and all, notwithstanding the admitted fact that Princeton had the worst side of the question, had the greatest confidence in the ability of our men to win from Yale. The debate was successful throughout and of the highest order of argument and oratory, and to Princeton men everything was eminently satisfactory except the outcome of the contest as given...
...present the worst criticism that can be brought on the play of Penn's eleven is that their work is impulsive and not regularly good. When it was absolutely necessary for the team to brace, then Brown could never gain an inch, and her runners were generally thrown backward; but this sort of play did not keep up as it should, and a few such moments of laxity might lose the game against Harvard. The same thing can be said of the offence. When the players really settled down to hard work and rushed at Brown's defence with...
Harvard again often lost the ball on account of holding and off-side play. Stevenson was the worst offender and cost Harvard many yards. It was his fault that Brown got the ball in the early part of the first half when she made her touchdown. Rice and Doucette were also offenders...