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...cold, raw weather kept away all but about a dozen members from the shoot yesterday afternoon. The strong wind made good shooting almost an impossibility. This shoot finished the series. The prizes are silver cups and medals. Best possible score, twenty...
...with Yale. Any one who has watched the playing of the team during the fall, must feel confident that the play of the Harvard eleven this afternoon will satisfy every one who is interested in college athletics, and will surprise those who have been depreciating the team as a raw eleven not worth much. It is a raw eleven in the sense that most of its members have never played on the University before; but that is quite a different thing from saying that they are not good. In fact, considering the peculiar circumstances under which Harvard has played football...
...last year. In the first place, the prospect of a game with Yale should act as the greatest kind of an incentive for work, hard work and not fooling. Secondly, the 'varsity team will afford considerable practice, besides furnishing an innumerable number of "points," a great advantage to a raw eleven. Although the Yale eleven has had over a week's practice already, by steady application this gap will soon be overhauled...
Unless unforeseen circumstances arise between the present time and the time for the games, Yale will probably have to look elsewhere for athletic honors. Hence, with a raw university crew, an untried and discouraged nine, and the recollection of the last Yale-Princeton foot-ball game, Yale's colors are rapidly changing from navy blue to indigo of the deepest and most sombre...
...word freshman is of very ancient origin, being derived from the old Sanscrit root, fhra, signifying raw, green, innocent, fresh. Compounded with the Saxon word Man, it becomes a synonym of infantile innocence and unworldliness, and is universally applied to individuals of a tender age when they first enter collegiate halls of learning...