Word: footing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...finances of the foot-ball eleven are in a flourishing condition...
...mentioned would probably give as reasons for it, that college men live a desultory and aimless life, pick up such crumbs of knowledge as come in their way, but do not prepare themselves for any active pursuit, and when set adrift, find themselves helpless, unwilling to begin at the foot of the ladder, and yet unprepared to begin any higher. Granted that there are a considerable number of students who go through college in this manner, and find themselves in a perplexity as to what to do after graduation, this fact cannot be given a general application. A good many...
...with the University race. Now that we are entering on a series of races with Yale, and with Yale alone, all interfering objects should be set aside. The duel between the principals should take place without minor contests between the seconds. The two colleges will contend next spring in foot-ball, and in the summer the University nines and University crews will try the tug of war together. This should be enough. For the past two years the matches between the Freshman nines of the two colleges have amounted to nothing, and the Freshman race has only made another delay...
...propose that Harvard and Yale Colleges lay aside all their ordinary forms of emulation at baseball, foot-ball, athletic games, and boating, and concentrate all their rivalry on a desperate race to the North Pole. We use race in a broad sense, to express an emulous strife towards a distant goal which it may take years to reach, but the attainment of which will bring great glory, after a struggle in which the contestants will have the world for spectators...
...engraving about the foot-ball game in New Haven is accompanied by a base and altogether absurd insinuation; which is not witty...