Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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This was our third game with Princeton, and, as she was defeated in both the former games, a like result was looked for in this one. Our men, however, had to cope with a remarkably strong Nine, flushed with their victory of 10 to 9 over Yale, and anxious to hang the Harvard scalp in the New Jersey wigwam. Our Nine, owing in part to their crippled condition, but principally to their traditional weak batting, was hardly equal to the occasion. The game was an exciting one, and the score, 3 to 1, was, we believe, the smallest ever made...
...accomplish nothing by the spirit of progress, which is proverbial in us, and which has so often astonished even ourselves; but what we gain, we get frequently at a disadvantage. There is much to praise, but also something to condemn in despatch. It is liable to deteriorate, and result in hurry and confusion, which seldom succeed, even under favorable circumstances. Foreigners notice especially the fast way in which our business men get through life. As though the fund of energy from which they draw were inexhaustible, they overwork the mind by continuous and intense toil; driving through life with...
...These will perhaps feel the force of a few words on what is becoming so common at Harvard, a fashion of trying to get a general idea of all the elective studies, rather than an accurate knowledge of a few. This desire for a little of everything seems to result in part from a very imperfect conception of what is called Culture, - that movement of which Matthew Arnold was the leader, and of which he himself says that its aim is the perfection of our human nature on all its sides, in all its capacities; that it presses ever onwards...
...second game of the season between the Bostons and the Harvards was played on the Union grounds on Saturday, 26th ult. After the weak display which the "University" had made the previous Saturday, an easy victory was anticipated for the Bostons. The result, however, was an agreeable disappointment, and the few spectators present were treated to an interesting and exciting game...
...affair was a great success altogether, which result is in great part owing to the exertions of the Business Manager, Mr. Godfrey Morse, and of the Acting Managers, Mr. G. H. Lyman and Mr. J. J. Minot, and to the talent and skill of the Musical Director, Mr. T. W. Moses...