Word: affections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...continued, so the only way to make the desired reform is to affix some penalty to safety touchdowns. Against our team Columbia made ten safeties and Princeton seven, while in those contests Harvard did not make a single one; yet these safeties did not enter into the score to affect it in the slightest. Here, then, is the weak point in the rules, and here is where the reform must be made. It will be very difficult to propose any remedy which will be absolutely sure, and at the same time fair in every case...
...greatly increased interest in rowing in both colleges and by the enormous crowd which yearly assembles at New London. When Amherst or Dartmouth can produce nines which have a respectable chance of winning the pennant their place in the league should be secure; but at present they only affect the race for the championship by winning now and then, through some lucky chance, a game from nines whose superiority is easily proved. Williams, we hear, desires a place in the league; Trinity will come next, and before long Columbia will heave in sight to repeat her foot-ball and lacrosse...
...their regular practice, ought to show a very decided improvement in their strength and method, and this improvement must come if they are to be successful in their game with Exeter next Saturday. Whether their first efforts prove successful or unsuccessful they must not let momentary exultation or discouragement affect their work, but must consider no victory important in comparison to the coveted one over the Yale freshmen, and no defeat so much to be provided against as defeat by them. '86 has everything before them; they enter upon their work backed by the interest of the college. May they...
...change of service at Appleton Chapel from morning to evening does not affect the regulations governing attendance at church on Sundays...
...poem, "A Vision," shows an earnest sympathy and intensity of feeling, but has unfortunately many marks of artificialness that jar upon the reader but still do not affect him very strongly, inasmuch as he feels that the artificialness exists only in the phrase and not in the poetic current...