Word: bluffs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hobson, '86, has become city editor of the Council Bluff Globe...
...Harvard quarters are directly opposite the starting point, on the east side of the river. The house at first sight impresses one as being a pretty summer cottage. It is surrounded on three sides by a wide piazza, and standing as it does on a little bluff, commands a fine view of the river. The quarters are painted a deep crimson, - and on the flag-staff, which is raised above the roof, floats a large flag, which has seen service for many years. On the ground floor is a large and airy dining room, and a kitchen, well supplied with...
...more of my freshman existence passed by without my seeing him, though by no means without my asking and hearing about him. Then one sunny morning there was a knock at my door, and in walked a broad shouldered, brown-bearded personage, with a burly gait, a deep, bluff voice, and a strong, good-humored countenance. My prophetic soul divined him before he announced his name-it was blaikie himself. My eyes perused him anxiously from top to toe, and my heart was satisfied. Even as he was, and not otherwise, would I have wished...
...have no means of knowing. Probably, however, they claim the right to gratuitously insult, as their players claim the right to play off-side and foul. We are forced to admit that the action of the eleven and the college press has been charmingly consistent and equally contemptible. Their bluff game has won them the championship but has lost them the respect and esteem of their opponents. If they are contented with such a state of affairs it is to be regretted, since such a frame of mind will augur badly for the future of inter-collegiate sports in general...
...Student complains because in the Amherst game "Yale played her usual bluff game, taking all she could get, and tackling our men when there was no occasion...