Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University rifle team will end its season this evening with a match against Iowa State University. This eleventh and final contest is expected to result in a victory for the University, for Iowa is represented by a comparatively weak team...
...this is not to say that it is a weak number. From beginning to end it is distinctly the work of gentlemen who show a commendable, even if somewhat immaturely executed, endeavor to write English worthy of our best traditions. All of us at Harvard may feel justifiable pride in the fact that in these days of so much debased printed English, the young men who edit our college papers keep to standards of literary dignity...
Undergraduate opinion, however, still has far to go. Too few men realize that they come to college primarily to study, or if they realize it themselves, are too weak in their condemnation of the men who fail to observe it. If a man on probation were shunned as the devil, we could feel pretty sure that only those--and they are few--who were mentally incapable of earning two C's and a D would be there. As it is even the athlete, immensely more in the college eye than any other man, deprives a team of his services...
...ragged scrimmage at the Arena yesterday afternoon. Harris for the Freshmen made the only score. A marked lack of team work was shown by the University seven. The forwards were individually aggressive but failure to keep in line or to gage the direction of their passes made their attack weak and ineffective. There were several good shots made, but in general the men failed to carry the puck past the Freshman defense or to get off their shots in time. The University defense, however, proved strong against the fast attack of the Freshmen. A few days' practice should steady...
...first half of the Freshman game ended with the score tied at 2 each. In the last minute of play, however, Baker succeeded in caging the puck for the deciding point on a shot from the side. The Freshman attack was weak and lacked team play although Baker and Fisher played well individually. The feature of the contest was the work of Weld and Wylde at goal for the Freshmen, to whose steadiness victory...