Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...final doubles in the tennis tournament were played yesterday afternoon on Jarvis field. The playing on the whole was poor and listless, owing a great deal to the coldness of the weather. Tallant and Lee defeated Lockett and Wrenn, 3 sets love, the score being...
Yesterday the members of the '85 'varsity gave this year's 'varsity valuable aid. Although on account of lack of practice, the '85 team was easily beaten, the listless playing of the 'varsity was very noticeable, and was commented on by the graduate team, If the nine expects to win even one of the three games with Yale, it must do much better work than was done yesterday...
...contest during those fast flying years when they were themselves at old Harvard, there is apparent today throughout the University, an explicable feeling that is in the very air of Cambridge; among the men on the various athletic teams as well as among the undergraduates at large. A lifeless, listless attitude toward everything; a "we can't-help-it" spirit that is sickening. In short a total lack of real, whole souled enthusiasm...
...athletic men, it can not help but do so. So long as the students of Harvard, as they have done this year, expect defeat and feel as if they had given up hoping for victory, we shall keep on being beaten. At the base ball games this spring the listless undergraduate spirit has been all too evident. We hope that this letter will be read by every student and that it will teach a needed lesson. Not only in the games to be played this year, but in the boat race can college enthusiasm work wonders. When...
...this. If we lose again to Princeton on Saturday, we will have no hope whatever. The nine has shown that it could play a strong game and we hope that from now on it will retrieve itself. Saturday's game must be won, but cannot be by any such listless, weak playing as was seen yesterday...