Word: alerte
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...wind that does not send a thrill to the brain along some one of these subtile intellectual fibres stretched seemingly at random in every direction, yet bound one to the other by flying buttresses of almost invisible association, and coming together in the middle point where sits the alert spinner himself...
Yesterday's game with the Matthews nine of Lowell was a great contrast to Saturday's game in point of sharp playing. The dash with which the visitors began put the 'varsity at once on the alert, and there was no delay during the game. The Mathews were not strong in hitting. They made but three hits in all, McCarthy getting a double. For Harvard Hallowell made a three base hit to centre field, and Hovey made two singles, eight hits were made in all by the 'varsity. Eighteen of the Mathews nine struck out. J. Highlands pitched six innings...
...National quarantine impracticable: - (a) Different sanitary condition of the several ports render uniform action impossible. (b) Local authorities more alert and efficient. (c) Division of authority between Nat'l and local boards would produce inefficiency: Ibid. (d) Local jealousies would be aroused. (e) Local regulations more elastic: e.g. action of N. Y. and Boston in Sept. 1892. (f) Mismanagement in one port less harmful than mismanagement in all. (g) Nat'l quarantine more expensive, because, organization must be permanent and universal to be effective...
...there is quite a different task in store for it if it intends to win from Yale and Columbia at New London. The men are not earnest enough. They do not put every effort into the work nor get half the good of their coaching by keeping their minds alert and attentive. It is time now for the crew to decide whether it is going to win next June. The time and watermanship are not so good as before the class race. The whole crew is slow at the catch in getting hold of the water and does...
...broken legs and noses are never heard of. The game is very first, the ball travelling from one end of the field to the other, either by the combined efforts of the forward line or the heavy kicking of the defence men. The spectators are continuously kept on the alert, and excitement in a close game is intense...