Word: copings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...final game between the CRIMSONS and Peachblows which has excited the highest interest throughout the university will be played We shall present an exceptionally powerful team, well fitted to cope with so celebrated a nine as the Peachblows. The game will doubtless be closely contested, but we feel confident that victory will once again crown the CRIMSON...
...making a plan for hazing? This is a question for students to consider, and this communication is written to ask for opinion either pro or con. There are objections in matters of detail, but is not the plan in its principle, the only one that can be expected to cope successfully with the evil...
...time been beyond our grasp. But to disappointment we are doomed, and upon our fond hopes and expectations a wet blanket has been thrown. Let not, however, all this enthusiasm of the past few days be in vain. In order that next year we may be able to cope with our rivals, foot-ball must not be allowed to stagnate this fall. Let the class games be played with old time vigor, else slim indeed will be our chances of success another year...
...match-games seems to be what our team most needs. In Saturday's game, our men were in better physical condition than their opponents. They out ran and outwinded them. But they lacked steadiness in playing against such old players as Ross and Davis. If they can learn to cope with such men as these, they will out-play Princeton. As for the disgrace of being beaten by these local clubs, the college is concerned only about winning the college championship from Princeton, and will not mind a few defeats like Saturday's, endured for the sake of getting practice...
...Such men are really very rare; but if we suppose that they do exist, and further suppose that their deception is so small that it is for all practical purposes zero, then and only then, can we say that they might on as fair and as equal terms cope with an examination designed to test their knowledge. Such men may, and may not, be right in their theory of examinations; but for ourselves we feel at liberty to differ with them inasmuch as we possess the required humility-and it does not take very much-to confess ourselves more ignorant...