Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...several years too few men have entered the fight at the Tree, and the old cry of "Harvard indifference," which those of us familiar with Harvard life know to be as untrue as it is demoralizing, has been heard in this new field. Too many men have gone to the Tree with friends, or for some other reason have failed to march in with their class and the "Wild ring about the Liberty Tree," which Longfellow mentioned in his Journal on Class Day, 1846, is in danger of being not much larger in the number of participants than...
Every man in '95 ought to enter the Tree enclosure dressed in a football suit, or in some similarly appropriate outfit, whether he intends to go into the fight or not. He owes at least so much to himself, to his class and to Harvard. There is nothing more unique or more picturesque in American college life than the struggle for the flowers on Class Day. Harvard men everywhere are proud of it and they like to see the old traditions honored each year by the seniors. It is not a personal fight and there is no danger to limb...
...year. Gary of Dartmouth has had more experience in racing than any of the other men and is probably a faster rider than Goodman of Princeton who won last year. Osgood and Coates of Pennsylvania, Ottoman of C. C. N. Y., Hill of Yale, and Elliot of Harvard will fight it out for third place...
...result of which there can be no doubt, are pretty evenly divided between the two colleges. Harvard has most of the men who won points in the recent University games to count upon, and at least one strong addition. The team is very well able to make a hard fight for victory, and Yale will have great difficulty in proving her right to the majority of points...
...ball, who are no other than their sweethearts of the morning, now clad in their legitimate raiment. The two gentlemen, in the middle of the night, play at burglars, and bind the squire in his chair and rob him. Dorothy, disguised in male attire, challenges her lover to fight a duel, and, the challenge being accepted, displays arrant cowardice, thus making the denouement and inevitable explanations easy and natural...