Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fourth number of the Advocate appeared yesterday afternoon. It is with pleasure that we mark the steady improvement which is characterizing the work published in this paper since the beginning of the college year. More than anywhere else has the Advocate improved in its editorial columns. The editorials are written with much care and in very good taste, and are notable for the strength and vigor of their style and the uncompromising tone which they take against what the editorial staff recognize as evil in our college community. The comments on football well deserve careful consideration and the points against...
Yale had the choice and took the ball, Harvard defending the east goal. Play was called and Beecher started to run, but was downed after advancing a few feet. Gill followed with a short run, as did Graves also. On the fourth down the ball went to Harvard. Corbin interfered, causing Harding to fumble, and Beecher dropped on the ball. On a fumble by Yale, Porter got the ball, and, in trying to run, ran outside the fair line. Another rush was made by Porter and Sears followed him, but ran outside. The ball was now taken in five yards...
Mayor Russell has consented to stand for a fourth term in response to a petition from 1500 Cambridge citizens...
...Price was stopped in his tracks. Porter and Boyden drove Princeton back. Bancroft carried the ball a few yards forward. Porter, Boyden and Saxe forged ahead. On four downs, Princeton kicked over the rush line. The half-backs carried the ball to Princeton's twenty-yard line. On the fourth down Boyden took the ball back twenty yards. Porter went ahead fifteen yards. Trafford and Boyden took the ball, but made little headway. Ames ran the ball out, but in a few moments Harvard had it again and Woodman ran and was downed within fifteen yards of Princeton's goal...
...establish class societies; but their term of existence is generally short. At present there is no such society in college, if we except the Phi Beta Kappa, which is in no sense social. The four-year societies are eight in number, and enroll as members more than three-fourths of the college. As the most able and most influential men are chosen for the societies, the remaining fourth are without influence in college, and the societies meet with no opposition. Contrary to expectation, the strongest influences toward morality and industry are exerted by these societies-lazy men are made...