Word: footing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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TICKETS to the foot-ball supper may be obtained as late as 5.30 this afternoon, at 2 Beck. The price of tickets is six dollars...
THERE will be a foot-ball match to-morrow afternoon on the Boston grounds between Tufts and Yale. Play will begin at half past three...
...Foot-ball practice has begun, and a fine team is confidently expected...
...matter for regret that a gentleman could not have been chosen captain of the Freshman foot-ball team without having a man, antagonistic to him and imbittered by defeat, make a charge against some of his fellow-classmates of "stuffing the ballot-box." We presume, however, that the gentleman, when he made such an ungentlemanly statement, based on no proof whatsoever, and in a manner so much to be condemned, was disappointed and excited at the defeat of his candidate, and did not realize the bad taste, to say the least, of his action. It was an accusation insulting...
...used these words as vehicles. It is too much like the school-boy fashion of memorizing the words of two hundred lines per day of the sublimest passages in Virgil, too much like what the poet Juvenal speaks of, who recited his verses standing on one foot. Such dexterity at the expense of profundity is of little...