Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feel like shaking hands with Yale and congratulating her on her remarkable success in the athletic arena during the season. In boating, base ball, and foot ball she stands at the head, and has every reason to be proud of her victories, since they have all been gained by hard work and diligent training. She has found opponents of no mean calibre in the other colleges, but has steadily held her own, and now stands forth, crowned with the laurels of success in every department. - [Bowdoin Orient...
...Princetonian thinks that Princeton's failure to obtain first place last spring in base ball, and its loss of the foot ball championship in the fall, were largely due to the faulty training, or rather, over-training of nine and eleven. The Princetonian thinks that if the weather continues as it has been for the past few weeks, the nine could obtain incalculable benefit from outdoor practice at batting...
...movement is on foot for the relief of homeless Jewish families in Russia...
...vigorous crusade has been set on foot lately, against that outgrowth of young Americanism, "slang," which has crept even into busy Lasell, and, strange to say, has seemed to find congenial soil, for it has flourished, as ill weeds proverbially do. On a general confession, it has been discovered, that every member of the school, with but one exception, is guilty of the use of slang, in a greater or less degree; and that exception - oh, my country women, is from over the border, an English citizen. It is amusing to find also, that while some confess their delinquencies with...
...familiar with the events of the foot ball season recently closed, a word or two might well be said now to the men who intend to try for the team next fall. The experience of the past few years has proved to a certainty that the part of the season which can be spared for training is too short to bring a man into anything like perfect condition for playing unless he returned to college in something above the average form. Formerly, as soon as the last game was played in the fall, the players were allowed to conduct themselves...