Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very good work for the victorious team, while Moffat, Kimball and Lamar gained much of the advantage for the orange and black. About 7000 people witnessed the match, many of whom were widely enthusiastic throughout the entire contest. Our eleven is to be congratulated that the recent considerate action of Yale's eleven has made it possible for us to play next Thursday, and it is hoped every Harvard man who can will go on and support his team on that eventful day. Whatever the issue may be the game cannot fail to be interesting and we are confident that...
...action of the faculty committee on athletics in respect to foot-ball, has astounded the whole college. Although at first it was hard to believe that any such announcement could be true, later developments have shown that the committee are thoroughly in earnest. while they state that they are backed by the faculty and corporation. While we can well understand what they complain of in foot-ball as brutal and demoralizing, and respect the good motives with which we are bound to credit them, and while we would ourselves gladly hail any reform of the objectionable features of the game...
...board of directors of the Co-operative Society, three important measures wero decided on, which it is the desire of the board to present to the college, with some of the reasons that led to their adoption. The first two involve a change in the constitution, and the action of the directors will have to be approved at the annual meeting in February. The third is a measure of expediency...
...disagreeable position, as it is now probably too late to arrange a game with another team. The pecuniary loss to our association will probably amount to some hundreds of dollars, as the management expected a good attendance at this, the only championship game to be played in Cambridge. This action on the part of Columbia, together with her refusal to play the Princeton game, will probably result in her expulsion from the association. With the best of feelings toward Columbia, it would be impossible for the association to retain a member whose engagements are made on so unreliable a basis...
...should be the principal meal, and he recommends lunch in the middle of the day and dinner at night. "Breakfast," he says, "should always include oatmeal, mush, cracked wheat, or some similar article, with plenty of meat.' Then come some remarks on the necessity for "regularity in the action of the bowels" with advice in case of disorder in those organs...