Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students are disengaged, is well calculated to prove a dreary season, in more than one respect. It does not seem possible that any reasonable argument against the lighting of the library could be presented. While it is certain that no institution of learning on the continent possesses a library equal to that of Harvard, it is probable that no college library presents so few inducements to its patronage by the students, or is comparatively so little used as the library of our Alma Mater. While we hear ever louder and yet more loud the alarming cry that the students...
...prolific of serious accident than any other; certainly far less so than the Rugbeian indiscriminate pulling and hauling and kicking, which have, indeed, been of late considerably modified by the rules of the Rugby Union. A goal outweighs any number of rouges; but where the Proportion of goals is equal, Victory remains with that side which claims the greatest number of rouges...
...rest absent; and our Overseers, "ninety-five in the shade," calm and tranquil,-how can we expect such as these to regard the wishes of the students, unless those wishes are expressed either in the "Explosive orotund" of gunpowder, or in the swelling choral tones that come from "One equal temper of heroic hearts" bound to be heard or smash something? Now. there is no doubt, but that our morning chapel is a most impressive service, one for which the Powers That Be may well be praised; there is also no doubt but that organized mischief-making and disturbances such...
...pluck; they played with a determination and spirit that won them the commendation of the whole college. But they do not know the science of the game. The fact is simple, plain and palpable. We do not know how to play foot ball at Harvard. The team was equal physically almost man for man to the Princeton eleven. Our men were in as good training. They rushed harder, Yet, upon the whole, Princeton played all around us. Every man on the Eleven did far better than the college had any right to hope for. But it was through their pluck...
...with the Yale freshmen game close at hand, the class is forced to register a defeat in its records. It is true that the Exeter eleven is the best that the academy has had for many a year, but no one will imagine for a moment that it is equal to the freshmen team from Yale. Since this defeat has taught the freshman where their faults lie, they will have no excuse if they do not correct them in the short time remaining before their final game...