Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Foot-ball has changed. It cannot help changing from year to year from the very fact that competition is constantly urging it forward. One party in trying to surpass the other will find some new method, some weak point in its adversaries' tactics, which, properly made use of, will gain for it the desired end. It is precisely the same in any other matter where competition takes a part, whether we confine ourselves to athletics or not. And our game of foot-ball is not an exception. The time is so short for actual training; the matches...
...sacs in the roof of the mouth, and are hidden, when the snake is quiet, like a cat's claws. The snake has regular noxillaries like any other carnivore, though it does not masticate its food. The fangs are only used when the beast is angry, and are thrown forward and filled with the poison...
...LINZEE SNELLING,Chief Junior Usher.HARVARD LACROSSE TEAM, The lacrosse team is still considerably in debt. It is absolutely necessary that a large amount of this should be paid off before July 1st. All unpaid subscriptions should be settled now. Any one who will forward his subscription will be conferring a great personal favor to me in doing...
...freshman crew leaves to-day for New London by the one o'clock train. The men are all well and are rowing in fine form. The race with the Yale and Columbia freshmen takes place on Thursday, July 1st, and our freshmen are looking forward to the issue with confidence. The crew will be made up as follows...
...boats, the manner of starting the crews, was the cause of much controversy several years ago. Article XIX settles the question definitely. A flag supported by a metal rod is fixed in the stern of the shorter boat, and another on the longer boat, at a distance forward from the center of that boat, equal to one half the length of the shorter boat. The two crews are started even and timed at the finish by these flags. In case of a close finish the referee may reserve his decision, but not longer than the day of the race...