Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...until the year of our Lord 1999 that the Faculty of Harvard College considered the game of foot-ball sufficiently pruned of its objectionable features to warrant them in giving permission to the students to engage in inter collegiate contests. A description of the Yale-Harvard game of 1999 will give a good idea of the manner of playing the game in that year...
...when the two great rival colleges were to contend for the laurel of victory, a great crowd of spectators had gathered on the field. The grand stands were resplendent with beauty of face and of color. Foot-ball was now almost as popular with the fair sex as progressive euchre. The appearance of the contestants was awaited with great eagerness. At last they came, and were greeted by generous applause. But not a college cheer was heard; for such an undignified manifestation of approval in these days of gentle manners was considered an unpardonable breach of etiquette and decorum...
Those who played in the foot-ball game last Tuesday, realized after the game that the gymnasium is sadly deficient in the apparatus for drying clothes. There are, to be sure, the steam pipes in the back of the lockers, but every one who has had any experience in the matter knows that clothes in the lockers never dry, no matter how long they remain there. Besides this there is one radiator in the bathroom. Probably it was not intended for a drying machine; but that is what it is used for, and it does its work well. One, however...
...great freshman text-book is out at last, and is for sale at the usual places and prices. Excepting the excitement over the foot-ball contests, nothing stirs the thought and feeling of the undergraduate so deeply as the appearance of the catalogue. And when the book finally appears, he pores over its pages as over the pages of a thrilling love story. So it is well worth our trouble to discover what striking changes this latest recorder of the facts of college life contains...
...Foot-ball practice this fall has kept a number of the candidates for the 'Varsidy crew away from the boat-house, and as a consequence the work done on the river this fall has been of a rather desultory kind. However, the captain of the crew has shown much personal activity in his coaching of the numerous candidates. Every afternoon when the weather permitted has been utilized. Sometimes the crew has gone out as an eight. The shell has been out about five or six times. Pair oared barges, however, are the boats which have been generally used...