Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wednesday issue about hour examinations seem well-founded. They undoubtedly voice the sentiment of nine-tenths of the students on that subject. If we are to have a return of regular, oft-recurring examinations, let us have them in the shape of monthlies, to whose occurrence we can look forward with certainty. Such an arrangement would be far less disagreeable than the present whimsical system...
...himself need know whether it be much or little. The box at the Co-operative is always ready. The meeting will succeed, have succeeded already; the only question is, shall the credit be due to us who will receive it, or shall we let others step forward and save...
...shall not pick out the ball with the hand until it has touched a third man. The committee voted 3 to 1 that a scrimmage ends the instant the ball is properly put in play, and that the ball is so put in play either by a kick forward or a snap back; and that the snapper back, therefore, can kick the ball forward, pick it up, and run with it before it has been touched by another player...
...committee therefore has finally decided that rule twelve means that a scrimmage ends the moment the ball is moved legitimately from a down, and also that rule twenty-nine is in consequence, not applicable to a kick forward...
...great pity that as the winter months set in all athletics must degenerate into the routine of gymnasium work. During the fall we have looked forward to each Saturday afternoon as the event of the week, but now the foot-ball interest is gone there is nothing which we can anticipate except the winter meetings still far distant. Cannot some enterprising or imaginative student discover some excitement in the gymnasium or elsewhere which can take regularly on Saturday afternoons? It would be more useful than the literary productions which are published in the college papers, and would not require half...