Word: exists
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...clubs of the different colleges. One of these games-foot-ball-it is charged, has degenerated into methods bordering on the barbarous and brutal, while others have engrossed so much of the attention of the players as seriously to interfere with the higher and real work for which colleges exist. One of the games, also, has sometimes brought the students taking part in it into such relations with professional players and their following as to awaken apprehensions of serious demoralization. Attempts have been made among the faculties of the colleges immediately concerned in these intercollegiate contests to unite on some...
...active, energetic policeman could stop all this. It might be a hard fight at first, but in a few months the thing would be accomplished. We happen to know that at Princeton there is a man for this purpose, and that the mucker nuisance does not exist there. Such a man could also take charge of the police force at all games, and see that the crowds are kept out-which certainly has never been done yet. Successful thefts have been made through the windows of ground floor rooms, and it is a wonder there are not more; these would...
...classes have delayed action from day to day until this important meeting was almost a week after their advent into college life. The importance of early action cannot be overstated, for it is there that all the class officers are elected, and the class as a body does not exist or begin to act until after this meeting has taken place. The election of a temporary captain for the football eleven is the first thing necessary to put the men to work practicing, as nothing can be done without a head of some sort. This done, and that as soon...
German is looked upon with much more favor than French by the Yale students. Much the same state of affairs exist at Harvard...
...agree with our correspondent of this morning in regard to the expediency of removing the nuisance near Holmes Field to which he alludes. It has seemed to us to have remained there too long already, as the necessity for its presence there ceased to exist some time ago. As the ball games which remain to be played will all take place on Holmes, everyone who is interested enough in the games to go to them, having to pass to the east of the laboratory, will, we doubt not, lend his cry to this appeal of ours. We cannot say more...