Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action as shall confine the abuse, in order that before another season the evil shall have passed away. While it is considered at the present day an excellent play for two rushers to stand shoulder to shoulder in their line in front of their runner, and as he comes forward to open his path by turning away from one another at the instant he comes, the abuse of such tactics is wrong, and it never is, and never can be, good foot-ball to not only push and drag rushers out of the way, but even to butt, seize...
...special meeting of the senior class of Columbia College was held Thursday, Dec: 22, 1887. The question of having a Memorial was brought forward, and in the discussion it was suggested that the class should found an annual prize for a junior oratorical contest. It was proposed to subscribe $500 this year, and, by annual subscriptions, to increase the fund to $1,000. The matter was laid on the table...
However this may be, it touches the honor of every man in the University to come forward now and by subscriptions pay off the amount outstanding, so that this year's management may start with a squared account. We trust that we shall hear that the sum needed will be paid off in the course of a very few weeks. But then a fresh and healthier start must be made...
...indicative of the healthy demand for a liberal education, by the young men of the present generation than the statistics shown in a careful perusal of the new Harvard catalogue. The University is now in a time of unparalleled vigor; the elective scheme of education which was first put forward a few years ago, in spite of ominous mutterings of more conservative colleges predicting dismal failure, has pushed far ahead, and the ever increasing size of incoming classes proves more and more the success of the plan. The suction of a large university is identical with that of great cities...
...again as the entrance classes of ten years ago. In the college alone there is a gain of 124 students over last year. These facts attest that the prosperity which has marked Harvard's career in the past is not yet on the wane, and that we may look forward to the time when our classes will equal in numbers those of the large English universities. The number of scholarships has been largely increased by recent bequests, and we can assert with greater truth than ever that no man need fear, on the score of poverty, to make Harvard...