Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...safe hits in the third brought in one more run. Harvard made her only run in the third inning when Hayes hit safely and went to second on Whittemore's grounder, scoring on Scannell's single. In this same inning, with three men on bases and none out, foolish base running lost Harvard a fine chance of tying the score...
...present time fifty-two men have signed; this from a class of over three hundred and fifty is, to say the least of it, disgraceful. Let it be remembered that this is the only opportunity which the class enjoys of meeting together as a whole. It will indeed be foolish to hold a "junior class dinner" when but one-seventh of the entire class intend to be present. Hitherto the class of '96 has been noted for its class feeling and for the spirit and enthusiasm with which it has supported its various teams. Bearing this in mind, then...
...last action of the Faculty on the question of intercollegiate football, a copy of which letter appeared in a New York daily. The commendable spirit which Mr. Brewer shows in advising quiet acquiescence in the vote of the Faculty, on the ground that age is wise and youth is foolish, is a new and strange thing to find in an undergraduate. But tenderly as this budding humility should be fostered, the crisis that has suddenly come in the life of the sport of football makes it desirable that all the friends of the game, - among whom the undergraduates...
...month more the candidates for the baseball and athletic teams will be called out. But the responsibility of the men who expect to try for those teams does not begin with the period of active training. It is something which should never be lost sight of. It would be foolish indeed to ask of such men that they keep in training all the time, but it is not too much to demand that they keep in generally good condition...
...then Paine's timely single to right allowed both men to score. Wiggin kept up the good work with another single, and both Paine and Wiggin came home on Winslow's single and Brooks's wild throw. Winslow went round to third on the throw, and then made a foolish attempt to steal home...