Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fifteen players still compose a team. The customary arrangement of these players on the field is thus: one fullback, two half-backs, two quarterbacks, and ten forwards. The game generally played is a heavy scrimmage game, with, in some cases, an intentional tendency to looseness in the scrimmages. The most important places on a team are the quarters, and without a pair of good quarters, a team, however strongly the other positions may be filled, is weak. As soon as the scrimmage is broken, the ball is snatched by one of the quarter-backs, carried forward, or else passed back...
...this country, have generously sent two copies of the bust of the poet, one to Harvard College and the other to the Maine Historical Society of Portland, the city where he was born. These replicas left Liverpool about the middle of December on the Canard line, which will forward them free of expense, and ought soon to be here. Meanwhile a letter from the Prince of Wales has been received by the president, announcing the gift. It is as follows...
...beginning of the new year affords us a favorable opportunity for stopping a moment in our college course and glancing around us, both backward and forward. It is but natural that we should look back, first of all, upon the fall term which has just closed, but which already seems a long way in the past. To many of us, in fact we fear to a great majority, such a glance will give us cause to rejoice that there are still a few weeks before the examinations in which we can endeavor to make up for the time which...
...school or college, was one written by a certain Undall who was at one time Head-master of Eton. It is of special interest for the reason that it was probably the first English comedy ever written. His pupils gave the performance at Christmas, and from that time forward the drama flourished at these institutions...
...hard "grinds" on the students and the faculty as well, sketches of college life, cartoons, and so on. All the wit, wisdom, and ingenuity of the year is crammed into it. Sometimes the results are remarkably good, sometimes they are equally poor. Doubtless the publication is looked forward to by the students with a great deal of interest, and, it is to be supposed, on the part of many with no small trepidation...