Word: footholds
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...defender of Lacrosse further says that in seniority that game ranks next to base ball and football. We do not understand how this argument is powerful, except in showing that Lacrosse has had the opportunity to gain a firm foothold in College, but has failed, and has in fact been eclipsed by cricket, though the latter is the newer sport. Had Lacrosse been able to obtain a high position in the estimation of our students, by common consent it would have had a field allotted to its use, and would have received pecuniary support, which is the willing and necessary...
...correction of his statements is only fair to all parties. His principle point is that "Lacrosse" (when compared with tennis) "is a new institution." Had he taken pains to investigate further back than his own short career in College, he would have discovered that Lacrosse had obtained a firm foothold here before either tennis or cricket; that at first the field back of Divinity Hall was used for the game; then, when the planting of trees rendered this no longer serviceable, Jarvis and Holmes; and that, in seniority, Lacrosse ranked next to base ball and football...
...time grudge against you which it is bound to pay off now with your destruction. There is another of less truculent aspect within three feet of you. You determine to trust to its mercies. But to jump to it would be folly, for you could never get a foothold in that way. You stretch across one foot to it while the other is still engaged in "rastling" with the first log. Now how to get the second foot over? You are fearful of slipping. Yet the new support seems to maintain its composure and sobriety. You can surely count upon...
...NOTICED in the last Magenta an article commending the practice of roughing (I must accept the word in its new sense), and pointing out the great advantages to be derived therefrom. It seems to me that this ungentlemanly custom has obtained far too great a foothold in college. In some circles a man's actions, good or bad, his words, and even his dress, are the objects of sharp ridicule and thoughtless jest, which often scarce conceal the bad feeling beneath. A number of men move in a fixed groove, and any one who chooses to pursue his course without...