Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON : From several very confident expressions we have heard in regard to the Yale game, and from the evident relaxation in practice by the eleven, it would seem as if victory was considered certain. It must be remembered that Yale has a veteran rush line, as heavy, if not heavier, than our own, and that the game cannot possibly be won by the tactics which were used against Princeton. Nothing but the most earnest mental and physical efforts can bring us victory on Thanksgiving Day. Over-confidence alone can never...
There are often occasions in which the press is unfair to college students and their customs, but the defamers of the game of foot-ball have a certain license in their attacks which is not allowed other detractors, owing probably to the apparent fighting which goes on between the rush lines of two elevens. The Boston Record of Monday launched out in a frantic tirade against the barbarity of the Princeton-Harvard game. Now, every one who saw that game knows how devoid of "slugging" it was, how critical the umpiring, and little the kicking. Yet we find the following...
...fall of 1868, the Everett Athenaeum, a sophomore society, was formed by certain members of '71. For some years the Institute has been the sole society for sophomores, and many men had necessarily no society. The founders of the Everett Athenaeum were men of literary tastes, and it was due to their efforts that the society assumed such a high literary standard. According to the constitution, a board of three editors were to be appointed, whose duty it was to present alternately, at intervals of two weeks, a paper not to exceed thirty minutes in length. At every meeting...
Amherst has refused to play Williams at foot-ball. The Williams Weekly gives as a reason of Amherst's refusal, her fear of certain defeat...
...part of our athletes and careful management on the part of the athletic committee. The present officers of the Athletic Ascociation are taking a great interest in Yale's welfare in their department of athletics, and are leaving nothing undone which will in any way make success more certain. It is their aim to develop men for those events which are not very strong at present. Coxe's graduation leaves Yale without the winner of the two of the first prizes taken last spring. The Athletic Association now offer prizes for contests in throwing the hammer and putting the shot...