Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ball as there ever were, and it would be impossible for two games, lacrosse and foot-ball, to go on at the same time on the same piece of ground. The lacrosse management knowing this, do not attempt to interfere with the foot-ball men who have a prior claim to the field at this season of the year; but in the spring, when Jarvis is at their disposal, they will attempt to bring out all the lacrosse talent at Harvard from which to form a team which shall be a worthy successor to the champion twelve...
...most consequence. The small amount of open-air exercise taken by the majority of undergraduates has often called forth a great deal of unfavorable comment, and fairly enough, too. Tennis has, it is true, gone far toward establishing a new order of things, yet even tennis can hardly claim to offer itself as a substitute for the energetic exercise to be obtained on the foot-ball field. We should be glad, then, if the customary matches between club tables and societies could be renewed this fall...
...touch-down at the place where it was carried across. In opponent's goal, this entitles to a try at goal; in player's own goal to a kick out." By the old rules the ball had to be actually touched down by a player before he could claim the ball as his. This always occasioned the roughest of play. Sometimes a player would seize the ball and then lay on his back, holding fast the ball all the time, in order to prevent his opponents from securing a touchdown. Men were often severely injured in this...
...would be impossible to enumerate even a small portion of the cant slang words in use, for every college has a dialect of its own, and a small dictionary would be required to contain the most common. Some persons claim that they can tell from what college a man hails by the slang he uses...
...learning, titles which are properly the reward of only scholarship and high literary ability. This evil does not exist to as great a degree in our larger colleges that have reputations, and are careful of them, as it does in the smaller institutions of learning, that are eager to claim some great man as an adopted son, and therefore select several promising public men, in the expectation that perchance one of them may hereafter become famous, and aid with his influence and money that college that first recognized and endorsed...