Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Confidence contributes in no small degree to success, but it is equally dangerous when too sanguine. Yale men have just as much cause as we have to anticipate victory next Saturday, if we are to judge from their brilliant play with Columbia. The general tone of their editorials show that the characteristic Yale quality of confidence is not shaken to any great extent even after what they call Saturday's surprise. What we have said is only in the way of a warning, and cannot discourage a team which knows its own merits and faults better than the majority...
...that he will be unable to play this week. Our game with Columbia on Saturday last speaks for itself largely. Columbia played a very weak game. To be sure, she was crippled by the loss of her two best players, Sherman and Morgan. The Yale team played rather a brilliant game, but it was unsteady and at times very risky. The ball is fumbled sometimes and there is a great tendency to throw it ahead. It is hoped that another week's practice may correct these faults. Probably a large delegation of Yale men will go to Cambridge on Saturday...
...order that '83 may have a pleasant and successful class day, one which may be a fitting close to her hitherto brilliant college career, great care and consideration should be exercised in the selection of officers tonight. We believe that this year there has been none of the pernicious caucusing and bargaining which has been so prevalent on the eve of former elections, and which has more than once engendered bitterness and hard feeling which has lasted until and even beyond class day. We hope that this same spirit of fairness will continue through the meeting tonight...
There was a brilliant auroral display just before dawn this morning...
...outside observer of the last Yale-Rutgers game, it seems that the Yale team is somewhat lighter than last year; that the forward line charges well, but their tackling is not remarkable; that the team plays a risky game, sometimes brilliant, sometimes unsteady. Princeton has chiefly to fear a drop-kick from the field. This criticism is, of course, based solely on the Rutgers game, in which, we understand, Yale played with several substitutes. - [Princetonian...