Word: britishers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much as four hundred years ago it was a favorite game for sailors of the British navy to "lay houlde of an goode rope's twiste" and pull against an opposing party on the broad ship's deck, of a quiet afternoon. The number of contestants was practically unlimited, and the contest was not decided till one or the other of the opposing parties had been pulled entirely over a chalk-line on the deck. Of course, after a few heaves, if one side began heaving all together, as sailor's heave a rope, the other side was bound...
This game has never lost its popularity; it is still a part of all the British and American army and navy games, and, in its new form, the most eagerly awaited event on the programme of a college athletic meeting...
PART III.1. British Patrol Osch. Banjo Clubs...
...orchestra will consist of twenty-five pieces. In the British Patrol, both the first and second Banjo Clubs, eighteen in all, will play. The programmes are made of heavy bristol board cards, tied with blue ribbons and the words of some of the songs are printed. The sounding board used at the Symphony Concerts will be furnished by Bowditch & Prudden, and H. W. Foster & Co. The floral decorations will be furnished by Dickerman. One box in the dress circle still remains unsold. - Yale News...
...between colleges whose only rivalry should be in the domain of the intellect. I am firmly persuaded that the intercollegiate sports are as much chargeable with the survival of the traditional animosity between Yale and Harvard, for example, as our primary text books of history are with the anti-British sentiment of all children of tender years...