Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tactics of its rivals and met force with force, fists with fists. Doubtless foot-ball can be made an interesting sport, but it is far from being that to-day, and there is room for much improvement. Very many who have seen the contests of this year will admit that they would rather go to see a first-class slugging match than the mean, under-handed tactics that characterize Rugby. The season has been far from being a success, and ended in a fizzle. The convention should have ordered the Yale-Princeton game to be played over, which Princeton...
...connection with these public games on holidays, where we are in danger of having all the evils of our horse races, with their jockying, their betting, and their drinking. I venture to suggest that the colleges interested meet by representatives and agree on some simple restrictions which will admit of our receiving all the benefits which may be had from manly exercises, of which we highly approve, without their incidental evils. I propose that Harvard, as the oldest of our number, be invited to take the lead in this matter and call us together, and I for one will feel...
...race. This year Yale is preparing to take the same step, and it may be well for the '90 crew to get the opinions of experienced and interested rowing men of the college, through the columns of CRIMSON, upon the subject, before agreeing with Columbia as last year, to admit Yale...
Whatever is done to give Yale '90 a race, it is to be hoped the old time Harvard-Columbia alliance will not be split to admit her again, and it must be remembered that Yale was admitted last year more from foolish courtesy than from real desire or enthusiasm...
...between the masters and the Chancellor resulted in the system of examinations which is now so unfortunately in vogue; for the masters compelled the Chancellor to admit anyone who had passed the examination prescribed by them. In Paris the clubs of Bolognia were introduced, and the contest against the Chancellor was chiefly conducted by them. These clubs consisted of the Picards, the Normans, the English and the Germans...