Word: devoide
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...match was not devoid of interest, however. The defeated side played steadily for three sets but were apparently disheartened in the last. They evinced a decided tendency to get nervous, serving and playing hurriedly; with a little more experience they will do more justice to themselves. The winners played a slow, steady, and at times brilliant game and will deserve the title of champions...
...have no regard for the demands of common courtesy, not to speak of interest in the good of the college. One more day remains before the report of the committee goes to print. We hope the delinquents will seize the remaining time to prove that they are not totally devoid of gentlemanly feeling...
...allowed other detractors, owing probably to the apparent fighting which goes on between the rush lines of two elevens. The Boston Record of Monday launched out in a frantic tirade against the barbarity of the Princeton-Harvard game. Now, every one who saw that game knows how devoid of "slugging" it was, how critical the umpiring, and little the kicking. Yet we find the following in that enterprising Boston daily...
Yesterday afternoon the second eleven played the regular Technology team on the Union Grounds in Boston. Harvard won, but the contest was very loose and devoid of interesting plays. The make-up of the team was as follows...
...appear to the general public a diminutive war, into which the contesting sides go with the avowed intention of maiming bodies, dislocating joints and other similar features such as characterize a modern rough-and-tumble prize-fight. A football game is not marked by such butchery, nor is it devoid of manly and courageous characteristics. The author opens with the question of the legitimacy of its being called the American game of foot-ball rather than the Rugby because the students of the various American colleges 'have developed it into a game differing in many of its phases from...