Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...athletics must degenerate into the routine of gymnasium work. During the fall we have looked forward to each Saturday afternoon as the event of the week, but now the foot-ball interest is gone there is nothing which we can anticipate except the winter meetings still far distant. Cannot some enterprising or imaginative student discover some excitement in the gymnasium or elsewhere which can take regularly on Saturday afternoons? It would be more useful than the literary productions which are published in the college papers, and would not require half the creative imagination...
...with certain misgivings that it was rather chimerical to expect a defeated Yale to help send Harvard across the Atlantic, or a defeated Harvard to pay the expenses of victorious Yale. However, we believe, and shall adhere to one belief, that such an arrangement would be by far the most praiseworthy and satisfactory if it could be put into operation...
...test at Newport between the old and modern types of government steam launches, the latter proved itself far superior in speed and towing capabilities...
...disapproval upon such speeches as that with which Captains Beecher and Peters have favored their friends. The Advocate, in its last number, has some pithy and hard editorials upon the re-appearance of this "muckerism," but we can say that the Advocate has not gone a step too far. Men who would speak as these men have done must portray their natures on the athletic fields as well. As we hear no words from Yale but those of praise, we have all reason to suppose that this spirit is the guiding one in the mind of the New Haven student...
...interest shown in the hare and hounds runs this fall gives evidence of the high appreciation which is placed on that sport by the students here. It is a pity that the weather is now becoming so cold that many of those who have run with the hounds so far this year are by degrees dropping out from the list without any fresh recruits taking their places. In all probability there will only be two or three more hunts this season, and an athletic sport which had such a good beginning ought certainly to have a good ending...