Word: deserter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Unfavorable weather conditions yesterday forced the University football squad to desert the Stadium for the shelter of the Cage, where the instruction on technical points replaced the usual program of scrimmaging. Restricted indoor space prevented kicking, and forward passes were tried only for short distances. Most of the plays were run against an eleven of substitutes, without scrimmaging...
Readers of that jargon of josh called the Lampoon are herewith notified that the hockey team representing the said slush-sheet will receive its just desert--the knock-out punch,--at the hands of the almighty CRIMSON hockey team (applause!) on the Stadium rink this afternoon at 4.15 o'clock. Despite the funny face now wet with tears, despite the resounding cracks between the bony knees of the irate Ibis, the invincible CRIMSON aggregation will cause the frozen H2O on the Stadium to gleam with the brilliance of their repeated shots into the cage so futilely guarded by the erstwhile...
...desert-sea to you shall...
...none; every man on the team, as Captain Fisher has said, is a fighter; but if, at the outset of an important game, any player makes a mistake and the opposing team seems to "get the jump" for a moment, the student body seems to lose heart and to desert the team. Thereafter, the players must combat not only the strength of their adversaries, but the discouraging pessimism of the whole Harvard stands...
...again declares his rare faculty of careful observation of outer nature and of personal emotion. In "Lost at Sea" Mr. Gilkey has wasted his finished metrical technique and his vivid sense of the rhythm of blank verse upon an incoherent story of a poetical cabin boy marooned upon a desert island by an ogre-like sea captain. Had the poem been long enough to admit of an explanation of the captain's hatred, the narrative might at least have seemed possible, but in the present clipped state of the poem horrid event follows horrid event without any logical sequence...