Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their decision, no one of the players was in the least hurt, and no one was obliged to leave the field. In English schools, the students are obliged to play foot ball, and in that country the game is, on account of the "hacking" and "tripping" that is allowed, far more dangerous than it is here...
...faculty go so far as to forbid all athletics of a violent nature and confine us to the cultured evolutions of the chest-weights and running track, they will doom the college to a state of happiness and effeminacy, far more disasterous in its results, morally and physically, than foot ball can ever be. Although only two teams represent the college, from fifty to seventy-five men engage in the game constantly during the season. These are for the most part, men of much energy and great animal spirit, whose natures crave some form of stirring excitement. The faculty will...
...meet with commendation on all hands, particularly as it is in such marked contrast to the methods employed by the committee of a year ago. But why should the meeting be held so very soon? There is no hurry, for the foot ball season of next year is far away. Rather is there good cause for delay. Many of the men who have the interests of the game of foot ball most at heart left Cambridge before the notice was posted and will not hear of the committee's action until they return after the meeting is all over. Others...
...afternoon was passed in speculating on the quality of the dinner to be served in Memorial, and anxiously awaiting the report of the Yale-Princeton game. The tables at Memorial were but thinly tenanted at dinner, and luckily, for the bill of fare was far inferior to those of previous years. When it became dark, the yard presented a most dreary spectacle, only a light here and there showing where some junior was grinding out the 1500 words of his forensic...
...will be far better for you to do this for you will not be accused of crying out against a theoretical grievance. I agree with you heartily in your protest against acts of insubordination and lawlessness by way of manifesting your discontent with the present compulsion. Nothing can excuse such acts as the recent disfiguration of the chapel, and nothing will more certainly impede your movement. Indeed, the various indications of late, that an element of rowdyism is reappearing a Harvard, will be seized upon as an argument that more, and not less restraint is needed...