Word: elasticize
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The amateur definition is strict, and there is a disposition both in England and America to wink less at the evasion of the rule. Very few of the socalled amateur oarsmen who are prominent can put their hands upon their breasts and testify that this clause does not apply to...
The following article, taken from the London Globe, gives an interesting account of the old English foot-ball player and the roughness of the game then played : "The old foot-ball player, although by no means of necessity an old man, is rather a melancholy spectacle, looked at from his...
"The Harvard University foot-ball uniform" says the Clipper, "made by Wright and Ditson, are probably the finest ever manufactured. The jackets are made of extra canvas, double-stitched and close-fitting. In the back is an elastic insertion about eight inches long and diamond-shaped, which enables the players...
The proud title of "University city" is one that can possibly be stretched to cover the entire territory included under the name of Cambridge, together with its numerous prefixes and suffixes. By the Boston Transcript, at least, the above title is extended to include the classic precincts of Cambridge port...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: That aspect of Harvard's position in the matter of compulsory church and chapel attendance, which is most illogical and undeniably absurd, it seems to me, has hardly been called into view by the recent discussions in the Nation and other papers. Why is it that the...