Word: combating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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With windmills to combat...
...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 one another in a contest in which...
...Yale men, and the sentiment of the whole college rises up against it. A good series of rah-rash at the right time is what all love to hear, but for the two sides to cheer at the same moment as though pitted against one another in a cheering combat seems to us even childish. Let all see to it in the future that there cannot be laid to their door the charge of injuring Yale's reputation for the courteous treatment of visiting teams...
Suggested solution of the boating difficulties between Harvard and Yale - A modified form of trial by combat, viz.: that eight men from each college row a boat-race. - [Life...
...report was circulated Tuesday in New Haven that the editor of one of the Yale College literary papers had been challenged to mortal combat by one of the students who was arrested a few evenings since for disorderly conduct at the firemen's ball. The reason given was that the editor had written an editorial which stated that it was unfortunate that the college should be disgraced by the acts of half a dozen disorderly students. The editor denies the story...