Word: footing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...belongs to those who take any interest in Harvard's position in future boat races to inquire into the cause of this indifference. To ascribe the cause to the interest in base-ball and foot-ball is not just, for the number of students is large enough for all the sports, and success in one sport ought not to prevent success in another. I lay it to the deplorable spirit of laziness which prevails here to an alarming extent. Men prefer to lounge about with cigarettes in their months, chattering idle nonsense, rather than to devote their spare time...
...WEEK from to-morrow, Saturday, October 14, a practice-game of foot-ball will be played behind the Scientific School by two Fifteens selected from the best players who practise during the week. From these two Fifteens the University team will probably be selected, and all who care for a position upon the latter should practise regularly during the coming week...
...CHALLENGE from the Toronto, Canada, Foot-Ball Club has been accepted, and the game will probably be played October 27, at Montreal...
...meeting of the Freshman class, Wednesday afternoon, H. S. Bond, Jr., was chosen president, and C. H. Hobbs secretary of the class. E. D. Jordan was elected captain of the Foot-Ball eleven; F. M. Holden, captain of the Ball Nine; S. Shillito, captain of the crew. There are about 225 men in the class, and a good nine and crew are expected...
...gentlemanly" way, i.e. in smoking, talking small gossip, and playing occasional games of poker for undergraduate stakes. And you will not find it difficult to pass most of your mornings in a way which will secure the favor of the Faculty. If any popular movement is on foot, you had better throw aside your work for the time being, and take part in it. But in ordinary times you will find that your evenings will give your classmates quite as much of your company as they will be apt to want, and will, very probably, give you rather too much...