Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...belligerent point of view, was a ridiculous failure. The sentiment in each of the classes was strongly against a rush, and most of the men went home peaceably as soon as the procession disbanded. Some, however, who lingered behind were precipitated into a fray by the bulldozing efforts of certain hilarious upper-classmen. The combat, when once begun, was marked by a commendable willingness on each side to cease hostilities. On the whole we think the participants in this rush deserve the thanks of the college. They treated us to the spectacle of a hundred men reluctantly fighting with...
Perhaps a certain class of sport, that of wrestling, in the various modes in which it is conducted, has the most to recommend it, and the one followed in the North of England is the best of all. It has had amongst its devotees men of tethers and of high cultivation. It has been said of a certain college, that it turned out better wrestlers than parsons. Certainly some of them made a greater figure in the ring, and a more successful one. than in the pulpit. At the end of last century and even at the beginning...
...Yale Courant. in defending Yale against the attacks of the "Nassau Misc" which finds fault with the excessive "sandiness" of the Yale foot ball game, delivers itself of the following: "Sand is, no doubt, disagreeable to certain individuals, but it is entirely preferable to the concoction of mud, cowardice and sour grapes which the organs of Princeton and Harvard, with their New York satellites, make a point of aiming at Yale after every Thanksgiving game...
...refereeing, we merely stale that the decisions of the referee happened to aid the other side. We thoroughly believe that the referee acted fully up to his convictions in regard to any one disputed point; what we mean by our statements referred to is, that the referee, because of certain facts which he did not see, seemed to us to make such mistakes that the play of the other side was materially aided. We do not think this to be a "fling" at the referee, but merely an expression of an opinion which we have as much right to hold...
...gentlemen composing the various committees appointed to make arrangements for the grand parade of tonight, everything is now brought into working order, and we expect our division of the parade to be again, as in years past, the most unique and interesting feature of the whole affair. It is certain that the preparations for the event which have been made this year by the college are on a far more elaborate scale than ever before. Whether this is advisable or not is an open question; but that the Harvard brigade will be met with an ovation on its march admits...