Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Brewer's resignation cannot, however, be thus explained. Arthur Brewer has been chosen permanent captain of the eleven, which will, of course, prevent C. Brewer being again chosen. It is thought possible by some that A. Brewer was the choice of the coaches, but that, being afraid he would resign in favor of C. Brewer, the latter was elected first, and then told of the graduate committee's plan...
...Emmons and Waters did not play, but were out in football clothes coaching the men. Lewis and Crosby also instructed the men in tackling and interference. The players seemed to have little life. They lacked determination in all their plays. Many of the men played as if they were afraid of being injured and were slow in getting started. As a whole the practice was exceedingly commonplace...
...freshmen partially retrieved Wednesday's defeat yesterday afternoon by beating the Boston Latin School nine, 11 to 4. Most of the men played in a listless way and showed no snap whatever. In base running the freshmen were especially poor. They seemed to be afraid to slide to bases and lost several runs by their slowness...
...plan suggested in another column for the better establishment of the debating interests here is, we are afraid, impracticable, but it would certainly do good if it could be executed. Precisely this idea led to the formation of the New Harvard Union a year ago, but, since the plan did not meet the approval of some of the best speakers in the University, it was only partially carried out. Owing to the manner in which affairs turned then, there are two societies today, neither of which acknowledges the other as superior and on whose respective merit it would...
Repetition is another feature of composition which is not thoroughly understood here in America. In fact our architects are afraid of it, having seen its baneful effects in the series of contract built houses which deface New York's streets, but it has been used with great effect, notably in the Palais Royal. Contrast is the bringing together of two great qualities or forms which are in opposition to one another. It is one of the salient features of the Spanish renaissance...