Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems but natural that Harvard men should consider a rush or a rough-and-tumble foot-ball game a relic of barbarism, but it is inexplicable how men who have been in Cambridge a year can consider a public drinking bout as more desirous, more manly than these. Perhaps we see here again the indifference which has destroyed our prestige in athletic sports...
...those who do not play foot-ball during the fall, and who yet enjoy a bracing afternoon's sport, no better opportunity is afforded than the runs across country undertaken by the Hare and Hounds Club. Everyone feels the need of some sort of recreation after the studies of the morning and early afternoon, and it was in order to meet this demand that the club was first started. The cold, invigorating weather of the next two months and the character of the country round about Cambridge, made the sport a very popular one from the outset, so much...
...order to offer an additional inducement to all who enter into the runs to put "their best foot forward," cups are given to those who by reason of their superior pluck and endurance manage to come in ahead of their fellows. Now that the college is beginning to swing into its regulated routine of work, it is time for those who have charge of the matter to organize runs for the fall term, and we hope that the freshmen will co-operate with the upper class-men in sustaining a branch of athletics from which so much good is derived...
...first Monday night of the college year. Ever since the founding of the University it has been considered by sophomore classes a fitting opportunity for initialing the freshmen in the mysteries of the new life before them. Of late, the old customs of a rush, a foot-ball game, or a tug-of-war, all of which had their days of supremacy at Harvard, have been superceded by a new and more civilized observance. It has now become the fashion for the members of the leading sophomore society to issue invitations to the freshmen who are considered likely to respond...
...Brine, 10 and 11 Harvard Row. Arrived per steamer Umbria, 1000 English Sweater Jerseys and Light; 300 Elephant-foot Balls; 200 Bath Robes, Mitts and Bath Slippers; 100 pieces English Stripe Flannels for blazer cap and pantaloons; 100 "Copper Box" Mcintoshes; 1 case English and Scotch Cheviots. A full line Hixon's English Tennis Shoes. Headquarters for Tennis, Gymnasium and Foot-ball Uniforms. We have constantly on hand a full line gents' furnishings, with E. and W. Collars and Cuffs. Agents for Troy Laundry. J. W. Brine, 10 and 11 Harvard...