Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...main question that was brought forward by the chairman was, whether students could fill the positions of proctors. Various views were expressed by the different members of the committee. No decision, however, was reached, and the matter was referred for further thought...
...college will have an opportunity to-day of seeing what promise the freshman class gives in the way of track and field athletics. The fall freshman athletic meeting is always looked forward to with much interest, not with any great expectation that records will be broken, but because it is the first time that the freshmen have occasion to show their skill in that branch of athletics which has ever been peculiarly Harvard's, We cannot impress too strongly upon the competitors the necessity of doing their very best, for the chance of places on the Mott Haven team depends...
...plays; but the whole Southboro eleven, though light, played with a great deal of snap and pluck. For Harvard, Trafford, Noble and Scott bore off the honors. It was evident from '89's playing that a lack of incentive is felt in not having the Yale game to look forward to. If we are to beat Yale next year, however, we must look to '89 for support; and any wretched playing like yesterday's will be severely criticised by the rest of the college. The freshmen speak highly of the manner in which they were entertained by their rivals before...
Finally, let everyone realize that at the age of graduation from college the mind rests easily and can ill afford to be neglected, and that if no immediate activity of mind, in study for a profession, or in teaching, or in business, is looked forward to, it is far better and it will promote profit and pleasure, present and future, to adopt some definite and of course some interesting line of study...
...sophomores sprang forward eagerly and seized the unhappy freshmen by their ears, noses, necks, arms, shoulders, legs and feet. They yanked the freshmen east, west, north and south. They climbed up on their shoulders and walked on their heads. They tore off the few freshmen who had on shirts every sign of them. They rolled the freshmen on the ground and walked on them. Most of the freshmen looked as if they thought the end of the world had come. Their red paint spread all over them like oil on troubled waters. Their faces were scratched and their trousers were...