Word: relaxations
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...nothing but the pluck of the Harvard men saved them from defeat. Their tackling was perfect, and the activity showed by the rushers in getting down on the ball called for much applause from the crowd. Things were looking rather dubious for Harvard, but the team did not relax in the slightest, and when Peace made his only slip-up, just eight minutes before the close, Ayers threw himself on the ball and secured it for Harvard. Both sides lined out, and Kendall receiving the ball from the quarter-back carried it directly in front of the poles. Appleton snapped...
...take its place among our athletic organizations. Its members have trained with a fidelity which our older organizations would do well to imitate, and credit is due to Captain Sturgis for his excellent management of the team. We hope that their first success will not lead the men to relax their efforts, as the coming game for the championship of the country will probably be a harder...
...ventures to assume this character, if it is not inborn. It is not an easy part to assume, and all labor will be in vain unless there exist a priori some natural adaptation for it. One must learn to have perfect control of himself, his watchfulness must never relax; for one little word, one involuntary smile, may destroy a reputation which it has taken years to acquire. The world does not ask for truth, does not ask if a character be genuine; but it does ask that it be consistent with itself...