Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...appears that the affair is to be settled by a compromise. Harvard is to give our Juniors the flags which they have won, and Columbia is to provide her own flags for her Ninety-one crew. We agree with our contemporary that this "is a very slip-shod manner of exchanging compliments." It would be much more satisfactory, and certainly more courteous, if the defeated class in each college gave its victors the flags which...
...grounds were in poor condition and caused both teams to slip and fumble badly. '93's playing was at times especially ragged. Through sheer carelesness they opened up great gaps in their rush line for their opponents to take advantage of, but it was at the ends that they seemed particularly weak. The men were slow in getting through and there was a general lack of team work. The Cambridge boys began poorly but steadily improved as the game progressed. Their playing showed considerable practice and time after time they worked the old criss-cross trick with great success...
PHOTO. COM.HARVARD FINCING CLUB.- Members wishing shingles leave their names on slip of paper in Secretary's box in club rooms...
...feature of past years that it seems a pity to discontinue it now, yet this will be the inevitable result unless something is speedily done. We have little enough class fellow ship here at Harvard, and it is a mistake to let our few opportunities of meeting as classmates slip by unnoticed. The rivalry of college life all past, the senior year is the only time when classmates may meet as brothers. It is this fact which has made the senior dinners in the past such enjoyable occasions. Ninety must not break so pleasant and profitable a precedent...
...very slight. There are few men, if any, who, by pulling on the rope in good form, can put a greater strain upon the back and legs then they can bear. So great a strain could not be transferred to the back and legs because the rope would first slip through the hands. In three years at Exeter and two here, I know of only one man who was seriously injured...