Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pessimistic, we who in our own time have seen so many good things accomplished,- have seen slavery disappear and polygamy and international literary piracy; we who have seen the beginning of the protection of our forests; our ballot laws so vastly improved and the spoils system stricken a tall blow. But we shall meet with disaster after disaster in America-and perhaps one disaster more than even our constitution can stand, if we do not exert ourselves constantly in the elevation of public affairs...
...that the baseball and track athletic games may continue to be held on Holmes Field if only for another year. A refusal of the petition to the Corporation to allow grand stands to be erected on Holmes Field would have been, as has been pointed out before, a severe blow to the nine and to the Mott Haven Team both to their finances and to the interest and support taken in them. Neither a diamond nor a running track could be built on Soldiers Field in time for use this season and certainly very few men could be induced...
...recent meeting of the University Corporation little was done besides discussing the proposed action of the city of New Haven in trying to tax various portions of the college property, raising the amount paid yearly from $50,000 to $489.000. Should this be done, a serious blow would be inflicted on Yale, and it is felt that the college does enough good to the town to deserve better treatment. Letters from other institutions of learning show that little or no taxation is universal elsewhere. A test case will be made soon before the courts...
Gentlemen, the blow does not fall upon the class of Ninety-seven alone; it falls upon the whole body of students; it falls upon the graduates who year after year have gathered about the old Tree and revived the memory of their college days. I have no sympathy with the sentimentality which defends a bad custom just because it is an old custom. I believe that the scrimmage about the Tree is not only an old custom but a good one. I believe that it can be and has been conducted in a manly, fair way, and that hundreds...
...only dual contest Harvard has with Yale will assure large and successful trials. Everything will be done to win it. But if we lose the Princeton debate we shall have had two defeats in succession, one by each of our rivals; and the combination will strike a very hard blow at our reputation in debating. If, on the other hand, we won the Princeton debate and lost to Yale it would be thought that Yale had come up in debating rather than that we had gone down. And if we won both debates this year our old supremacy would...