Word: finer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Goebel '10, right guard, is a hard worker and is especially effective in helping dragging the runner along. He still lacks skill in the finer points of the game and is not yet able to use his strength to full advantage. He is fast on his feet but has the fault of charging too high. He is especially good on the defense...
...profit by the experience of its predecessors, to avoid their mistakes and improve upon their suggestions. But only too often, when the actual work of the committee is over, the chairman either neglects this duty altogether, or draws up his report long after he has forgotten all the finer points that his experience has taught. Reports of the more conscientious committeemen are not infrequently mislaid, simply because there is no place, where they may be stored for reference in future years...
...guard and it will also be possible to use him more on the offence from his new position than formerly, which may be deemed advisable later on. Pierce is physically better suited for a guard than a tackle and should have little difficulty in acquiring the finer points of the new position. The same is true of Captain Parker who has been shifted from centare to left guard...
...Hartford proved his ability beyond all question and should be equally effective today, while Heyniger can always be relied upon to pitch good ball. With the two teams so evenly matched, as shown in the first game, and with very little choice between the pitchers it will be the finer points of inside baseball that will win or lose the game this afternoon...
...University are honored by the hirelings of the University with a grade of courtesy which would shame a country grocer's bumpkin, and with a gentlemanliness of demeanor which indicates an apprenticeship serving rations in a penitentiary, the intruding student is apt to wish that his taste for the finer courtesies had been better adapted to this new environment in the Reading Room at Gore Hall...