Word: halting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...intercollegiate Republican parade will take place in Boston this evening. The Harvard section will form by classes in Cambridge and march into Boston, where it will halt on Beacon street and join the other divisions. To avoid confusion and insure a prompt start, every man must be in line with his class at 6.15 p. m. Ninety-seven and the Graduates will form on Garden street from the corner of North avenue; '98, North avenue, from Kirkland street; '99, Cambridge street, in front of the Law School; '00, Kirkland street, from the corner of Cambridge. The men from...
...line of march will be through Church street, where every man in uniform will get a torch and cross Brattle square to Mt. Auburn street. At Plympton street the column will halt till every man has a torch. Thence the route will be along Massachusetts avenue to Beacon street, to Dartmouth, where a halt will be made. The parade will then move up Commonwealth avenue to Massachusetts avenue, to Huntington avenue, to Dartmouth and Copley square, to Boylston, to Arlington, to Commonwealth. On Commonwealth avenue the parade will march up one side and down the other so that every...
...pounds lighter than either of their opponents in the three cornered race but they are "sandy" and very quick. They will row in a shell made by Waters. The gravest criticism of the crew as a whole is a tendency to rush forward the slides, which gives a perceptible halt to the boat at the finish of every stroke. The blade work is excellent, although it is not always sustained...
...spirit of demoralization. The visitors' first touchdown seemed to rattle rather than dishearten the men. After that there was a certain indecision, a certain helplessness against Amherst's sharp aggressive game. which filled the minds of the Harvard men with unpleasant thoughts of what may be if a halt is not made immediately and measures taken to see that, from now on, this unreliable changeable sort of work is put an end to, and that the team begins to make some steady, effective progress. The blame of Saturday's game cannot be laid on the shoulders...
There is always danger, however, that anything like this will be carried too far, and the game yesterday went to show that a halt should be called already. Certain means of rattling the players, testing their coolness and nerve are perfectly legitimate; but let the interference stop there. After all, the object is to see which team can play the better and steadier game, and any practices which prevent a team from playing its best (beyond the practices of legitimate rattling) are distinctly to be discouraged. Using mirrors to throw the sunlight into the players' eyes, a practice which...