Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very improbable that the annual Andover-Exeter foot ball game will be placed this fall. The game had been arranged for the ninth of November, but the Andover faculty has refused to allow the team to go to Exeter, as usual, to play the game. As a result of this decision it is said that the Exeter eleven has gone out of training...
...walkover for Lee and Tallant who were playing in magnificent form. Kingsley and Jennings on the other hand were unsteady, and appeared to be rather out of practice. Tallant started out with with brilliant placing and smashing all through the first set, and was well supported by Lee. The result was a love set. Kingsley and Jennings rallied a little in the next set, but could not drive their opponents back from the net, and succeeded in winning only two games. The third set was longer and more interesting, Kingsley and Jennings played in much better form while...
...result of the first of the series of class football games, played yesterday afternoon, was for several reasons gratifying. In the first place there was some very creditable playing done-creditable to both teams alike. Of course there were occasional slips which have unfortunately to be expeeted at this early stage, and some considerable unnecessary delay at various times in putting the ball in play which protracted the game; for all that, however, the play was interesting and promised well for the future. The work of the freshmen, while not of course nearly so good as we expect later...
...successful way the causes of our lack of success in athletics in recent years. It is only too true that one of the fatal weaknesses of the college in an athletic way is our proneness to one-man dependence, or as the Advocate terms it, "the star system." A result of this is that we are easily discouraged; let anything happen to our star and we become despondent and down on our luck, lose half our energy for work, and are of course beaten. What we want is "a little more pluck and persistency," and a great deal more work...
...those of us who are beginning to realize that the promised improvements which were to result from the new janitor system are a delusion and a snare, the second editorial strikes a responsive chord. The better service which we have all summer been persuading ourselves we were to have this year has not yet materialized. And a great many of us miss the old janitors; they understood our ways better than these new comers, and we resent a change which has not conduced in the least to our comfort or convenience...