Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Whatever may have been Harvard's hopes for the football championship, they are now destroyed. It was not a feeling of over-confidence which led us to look forward to a victory at Princeton last Saturday, but a sincere belief that the steady training which our team had undergone since the beginning of the year would bring them out ahead. According to the reports received the team played collectively one of the poorest games this fall, but there can be but little doubt that they were clearly out matched. The best of good luck could not possibly have changed...
...additions to the Agassiz and Peabody Museums, which were begun early last spring, have been pushed forward so rapidly during the past summer that work on the interior has commenced. The extension to the Peabody Museum is about forty feet deep and will be used principally for exhibition rooms. There are many archaeological specimens, now stored away or crowded in the used portion, which will be placed in the new part. The original building and addition form together two-fifths of the contemplated structure...
...class of students, of those who have finished elsewhere their college career, and who wish to pursue their studies in a higher place. Columbia is especially favored in regard to location, for such an undertaking, situated as it is, in the heart of a great city. Professor Barnard looks forward with pleasure to the time when a sufficiency of funds will enable enable him to carry out this projected design...
...line. Cumnock stopped a rush by a good tackle and Harvard got the ball from a fumble. Lee ran eight yards and Cranston, running from a fair, lost the ball; Cumnock fell on it, but the referee give the ball to Dartmouth on the ground that it was thrown forward. It returned to Harvard on a foul, however, and Davis carried it over the line. Time, 12 minutes. Harding kicked the goal. Dartmouth started the ball from the middle of the field, but Harvard soon got it from a fumble. Harding carried it to the 25-yard line, where...
...game, pushing and plunging ahead with no let up so long as they can make their five yards. Yale will play for more carefully planned opportunities, varying her game with an occasional kick and manipulating her men with greater rapidity and more precision. Princeton will play the most dashing forward game of them all. Her rushers will get through more quickly and sharply and will be down the field faster on a kick. She will take far greater chances than any of the rest, and while not playing much faster than Yale, will be more surprising because more reckless...