Word: fight
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Sophomore-Freshman base-ball game and fight came off, as in former years, the second Saturday afternoon of the term...
...make a game fight with...
...everything that the Chief Marshal could think of; and finally separated with feelings of triumph or of rage, as they carried away trophies or bruises. Among the participants in this annual rush, the Freshmen have always been prominent. Their youthful enthusiasm has led them to run about, and to fight, and to cheer with an ardor which left the other classes far behind. And if the Freshmen are excluded this year the exercises will lose half their point and half their spirit. It would seem, then, very undesirable to exclude them; and the exclusion might easily be avoided...
...this reply the Nation seems to me to be wrong, and not at all consistent with the principle laid down at the Alumni dinner of which it had approved. If it is true that the same praise is due to all who fight in the true spirit, and if our brothers of the South fought in this spirit, how can it be that the builders of Memorial hall - that is, the Alumni and other friends of the University - do not "reverence and love" them, and wherein lies the "absurdity" or the "hypocrisy" of their classmates' setting up tablets to their...
Eager for the morrow's fight...