Word: backed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...tossed it back, in scorn, at Discord's feet...
...Foot-Ball Team have elected Mr. L. Cushing, '79, captain; and have decided to allow the Nine to use the grounds back of the Lawrence Scientific School until four P. M. at which time the Nine is to withdraw, provided there are eighteen foot-ball men on the ground...
When the Advocate makes the sweeping statement that the Faculty are not proper subjects for satire, it forgets that a very short search through its back numbers would show that this opinion is either something new, or that it has many times been disregarded in the paper that expresses it. In point of fact a large part of the humor of every college publication is at the expense of the instructors. It is natural, too, that this should be the case. The members of the Faculty are the public men of what the Lampoon calls our "little world...
...last part of his stroke, his hands coming in too low. Schwartz uses his arms too soon, and makes the last part of his feather too high. Brigham hurries his body forward, pauses, and catches just too late, in which fault he is followed by Legate; his back and shoulders are not firmly set, and he seems to lack control of his oar during the feather. Legate goes too far back and not far enough forward, as he still fails to let his body down between his thighs, when on the full reach. Smith and W. Le Moyne have each...
...truth is, men are hanging back to see who their antagonists are going to be. This is, of course, nonsense; if a man is capable of entering into an athletic contest at all, he ought not to be afraid to have it known that he considers himself a fair match for any other man of the same weight who may happen to be his opponent. We understand the feeling that prompts this procrastination, but cannot do otherwise than condemn it; somebody must make the first advances, and so long as a man has made up his mind to spar...