Word: grips
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...Should sit up to it better and follow stroke more closely. Must get more reach and better grip...
...Must keep shoulders down and stomach natural. Keep head up and get better grip with outside hand...
...working of life among the mass of students are sometimes moved to anger and sometimes to mirth by the condition of the public mind towards institutions of education. Many seem to regard Harvard as a patent machine, warranted by the corporation and faculty to take any material in its grip, and, after four years, turn out a first-class scholar and gentleman. No matter how ill prepared, how feeble the mind, how powerless the will, how vicious the habits, how indolent the nature, how undisciplined the character, Harvard is to turn them, one and all, into scholars and useful citizens...
...which is to blame, that those seeds were allowed to flourish unheeded. It is all the more unfortunate that to-day the element of fair dealing and manliness in Cambridge is compelled to fight its battle with this evil which now has had a year wherein to fasten its grip upon that fair reputation for which in time past Harvard was known and respected everywhere...
...were expecting an easy victory for the home team, coached and trained as it was in the school of the celebrated New York "Giants." In this they were grievously mistaken. The Harvard men got down to work on the first ball pitched, and did not let go their grip until twenty-seven Columbia players had been retired. The Columbia nine was supported well by the members of the college, who cheered lustily for their team during the early stages of the game. Some twenty-five Harvard men made their presence known by red bunting and enthusiastic cheers. Although their early...