Word: weakness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard's championships is passed over and forgotten. What is the reason of this unjust and undeserved neglect? Nothing but a feeling which pervades the college, injurious both to it and to athletics, that it is not the thing to play lacrosse. Think of it. How silly and weak the reason is which keeps men from learning this game. At Princeton, during May and June, one sees the men who will play foot-ball in the fall playing lacrosse, the best exercise in the world for foot-ball training. That is what should be done here. Every foot-ball player...
...most of the coaching, and do not study their faults enough. As a crew they row short. The recover is hurried and not smooth, and there is not enough life in the catch and heave. Most of the men fail to swing well from their hips, thereby getting a weak stroke and tiring themselves. The usual tendency to contract the stomach, instead of letting it take care of itself and hang naturally, is noticeable. This fault must be overcome if the men don't want to be used up in a short distance. The men must not hurry stroke...
...life enough. Doesn't get enough body reach. Hurries his recover. His catch is weak and he bends his arms too soon...
...quarter-mile run Yale is weak, and the race will lie between Banks, of Columbia, who holds the world's record at that distance, and Wells, of Harvard, who is remarkably fast and will push Banks very closely for first place. In the half-mile run, too, Yale is pretty weak, and unless some new man turns up this event will go to Cogswell, of Harvard, who was entered in the fall games last year, or Faries, of the U. of P. Both of these men are strong runners at that distance and the winner will have to make good...
...know themselves to be honorable would feel that they were degrading themselves if they should call to their aid eleven men to help them ascertain that honor, and they would ask that the same consideration they demand for themselves be given to their fellows. Public opinion is weak at Harvard to-day because it is not allowed to grow. Men are "suspects" the minute they enter the examination room. You cannot make a man morally strong by making him feel that he is watched. Men must be made to know that confidence is placed in their honor. Professor James...