Word: weakness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...will leave some older organization, which needs their support, to start a new one, which may fall to pieces after a short and precarious existence, we think they should consider well before making the attempt. It is better to have a few well-supported institutions than a great many weak and in debt; and, judging from reports, we already have more societies and clubs than men can find time to attend to. If we go on, every Harvard man will soon be an officer of some college organization...
...dumb art thou, although weak men have long...
With head hot, heavy, and weak...
...courage as well as sound learning, - who should lecture to the students and be their adviser; a man who could advise the crews in training, and watch that no man overstepped the limits of his physical powers; a man who could tell the round-shouldered, hollow-chested, crooked-legged, weak-backed, how to remedy their defects, and put them at work on suitable apparatus in the gymnasium; a man who could tell the boating-man, the bicyclist, the base-ball player, what he most needed and what he should avoid; and, with all this, a man who by his character...
...finest fly-catches ever seen on a ball field. Hutchison's play at short was the principal feature on the part of Yale; he succeeded in stopping several seeming base-hits, and in sending them over to Hopkins like rifle-balls. Smith played pluckily behind the bat, but was weak in throwing to second. The following is the score...