Word: serious
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spite of the natural chagrin felt by Harvard men at the unexpected result of the Yale game and the tendency to feel discouraged as to the outlook in football, nothing could be more unreasonable than to consider the season as a whole a serious set-back to Harvard athletics...
During all the years in which athletic relations have existed between Oxford and Cambridge, there has never been serious dispute between them...
With one or two exceptions the men are all in splendid physical condition. Bull has a limp and Sawin received a slight injury to his knee in recent practice. Neither of these cases is serious, however, and it is improbable that either of these men will be prevented from playing on Saturday, should their services be required...
...about the same as that which usually appears in the Monthly; it flows on smoothly enough and seems to have a good deal of meaning, which, however, on close analysis dwindles to very little. As a whole, this number, entirely creditable from a technical point of view, is too serious; there is a lack of the humor, which covers a multitude of literary sins...
Yale has a serious handicap to overcome this year. Her men are all young and inexperienced players and have the consequent tendency to fumble and get rattled, which may be very costly in the big games. She has, however, material which is bound to develop in another year into a strong and aggressive team...