Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Dibblee, at fullback, is from Groton, where he played quarterback on the team for two years. He is a good punter and dodger, but is too light for bucking the centre...
...practice. Nothing can be more disheartening to any college team than to feel that it has been left alone to go through the hard routine of daily practice simply to provide a spectacular performance once in a while for the amusement of an unsympathetic crowd. Yet that is the light in which the football team's work must inevitably appear, if no more students take, what they should not be willing to call, the trouble, to go down to the Field every afternoon. The presence of a good crowd watching the practice is not only in itself an expression...
Considerations of loyalty to the University, then, the desire to keep its athletics in the proper light before the public and our own graduates, besides the very strong claims of the team itself and of the game, should stir up every student here to a greater interest, in the few days that are left of the football season...
...arrangement of a game between the freshman football teams of Harvard and Pennsylvania gives a much needed stimulus to the work of the Ninety-nine eleven. The realization that they are to represent the University in an intercollegiate contest should put their every day practice in a different light than would otherwise be possible. From now on their work will be followed with the greatest interest and a victory for Harvard on Saturday will be as gladly welcomed by the whole University as by the members of the freshman class...
Joseph Potter Cotton's "Social Subversion" throws a new and extremely clever light upon the "Summer Girl." The story is told in a series of characteristically bright letters written to a certain mutual friend. Possibly the best bit in any of the letters is the remark of Robert Farrar, who, speaking of his "fiancee," says that "she is able to transcend conversations without crashing through them." Cotton writes in his usual clear, suggestive style, and he draws the three characters with a charming distinctness and originality...