Word: blood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rushing at full pace with the ball toward the enemy's goal-ling, while a back-player, instead of seizing him below the waist and throwing him, calmly waited for him and hacked him over. Men used to leave a match in those days with the blood streaming through their stockings, and if there was not a stand-up fight or two during the course of the proceedings, it might be noted as an unusual occurrence. Old Blackheath residents may call to mind one memorable Saturday afternoon when, after a match between two rival teams from the establishments...
...Halbert, '85, from the floor, declared for non-interference and said the whole tendency of the college administration was away from the theory of paternal government. Mr. John Codman, '85, defended the Harvard eleven from the charge of the affirmative that they had gone to Princeton with blood-thirsty intentions. The only violent talk comes from a few men not on the eleven nor truly in sympathy with it. Mr. C. R. Saunders, '84, pointed out the essential difference between civil and faculty government in the simile brought up by he negative. The faculty were not trying to hamper legitimate...
...Spirit of the Times in its report of the Harvard-University of Penn sylvania foot-ball game reflects very severely on the bad blood displayed by several of the piayers, to say nothing of the bad language used. If this report is to be credited we must impress upon Harvard the necessity of mending her manners before playing the championship games. She must not for a moment forget that it is her mission, to which the vulgar straining for victory must ever be secondary, to set before less favored colleges a shining example of how the cultured gentleman plays foot...
...propositions were in question. Even the medical faculties-that of Paris, the most celebrated of all at the head-allowed no divergence from that which they regarded as the teaching of Hippocrates. Any one who used the medicines of the Arabians or who believed in the circulation of the blood was expelled...
...lowest forms, as in the sponge, to the highest, as in man, is found a fluid which is the condition of vitality," said Dr. Sargent in his lecture on "The Blood" yesterday; "this in man is called blood." The lecturer explained the diseases which arise from the presence of too much blood or a deficiency of the same, and what effect either of these conditions has upon a person mentally or physically. Thus, one who studies very hard is likely to find his feet or hands cold even in a warm room, because he uses his blood to such...