Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Before the introduction of the present system of assigning rooms by lot a very curious method existed - or one which seems curious in view of the present system. The rooms were assigned by classes, freshmen having ground floor rooms in all buildings except Holworthy, the whole of which was reserved for seniors, with the exception of those rooms directly under proctors, which were given to freshmen. All of the freshmen in the different buildings who held the rooms under the proctor, got their rooms free, or for a nominal sum, in consideration of services rendered to the proctors...
...Constantly the Yale snapper-back and other of the rushers would make fouls by which advantage would be gained. The referee would almost as constantly decide that he could grant no foul, his statement generally being that he had seen none. Understand, no charge is made against Mr. Cabot, except that at times he seemed rattled and inefficient. His mistakes were chiefly due to the methods employed by Yale...
...mile run, handicap; half-mile run, handicap; one-mile run, scratch (for those who never won a prize at this distance); quarter-mile hurdle-race, handicap; one-mile walk, handicap; and ten-mile run, handicap. Silver cups will be given as prizes to first and second in each event except the ten-mile run, for which cups will be given to first, second and third...
...street - professor; goes without eating twenty days - professor; rides four horses bareback - professor; sings in the choir - professor; teaches a brass band - professor; cures warts - professor; plays billiards for a living - professor; trains dogs - professor; performs some clever trick of sleight of hand - professor; does anything in the world except teach, and knows less of books and schools than he does of heaven - professor...
...practice the mean and unfair methods which have become known universally as "Yale tricks." The new freshmen on the foot-ball field are daily cuffed, thumped and trampled upon until, in their desperation, they retaliate and finally learn to play the game which meets the condemnation of every one except a few "Yale supporters," who follow the team about, forced by the public opinion of their college to wave the blue handkerchiefs, sport the blazing society pins, and applaud the "thug like" playing which is greeted by everybody else with disapprobation and hisses...