Word: luck
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...circumstances are taken into account. How is it possible for an athletic team with no money to support it and with no sympathy from the college to encourage it, to compete with teams which have all the money and support necessary? If those men who talk about our "hard luck" or "our poor team" will compare the way they treat their team with the way the other colleges treat their athletic representatives, the results will be very easily accounted for. The Harvard team went to New York the day before the game and stopped at one of the best hotels...
...catches. Young played a brilliant game at second, though but one catch was very difficult. McLeod and Codman also made brilliant catches. Thayer caught as well as usual, and Palmer and Foss also did well. Eighty-eight batted hard for the first time and bunched hits, but had hard luck in getting men left on bases. Mr. Loud's umpiring was impartially poor, and he allowed himself to be bull-dozed...
...crew has had very hard luck, inasmuch as four of last year's eight are rowing with the 'Varsity; the loss of stroke being especially felt. A number of new men have been tried, and it is only within the last few days that the regular crew was definitely decided upon. There are a number of individual faults. The following are, perhaps, especially noticeable...
...pitching of Boyden throughout the game was commendable. Fourteen men were struck out and not one given his base on balls, while but five hits are credited to the Cochituates. Mumford on second did good work in the field and batted well. Piper struck hard but had hard luck in flying out. It was unfortunate that no opportunity to do some fielding work was not given him. For the Cochituates the honors were carried off by Bond, who proved himself a model out-fielder. Collins caught a muffed ball before it touched the ground and won applause. Mr. Eagan...
...fines varying in amount with the enormity of the offence. Smoking was prohibited "unless permitted by the President, with the consent of parents and guardians, and on good reason first given by a physician." Money was very scarce in those days and a frequent delinquent who had the ill-luck to be detected in his wrong-doing would soon find himself impoverished. Indeed ready cash was so difficult to attain that the term bills were often paid in kind, butter, cheese, fruit, etc., being the commodities offered in exchange for education...