Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accordance with the new regulations requiring a gain of five yards in three successive downs in foot-ball, the side-lines of the field will hereafter be divided off into five-yard spaces...
...rule, requiring a gain of five yards in three successive downs, settles this difficulty in a most thorough manner...
Harvard's game will not be seriously affected by this requirement, as last year she frequently made use of "punt-overs" to gain ground when other resources failed; she can still have those to fall back on if unsuccessful in two successive downs...
...rest assured you will never see her anywhere else. In short, all you have to do is to put any mark of individuality in the background, allow them to swallow you up in their own enthusiastic conceits, egg them on to do the same, and you will gain friendships in proportion only to the raw literary material that will be showered upon you by tomorrow's mail. And now let me introduce you to Mrs. De Sorosis and Dieu te garde, while I continue my psychological investigations - by the way do not forget to tell Mrs. De Sorosis that...
...festive penny-a-liner of the Post, who delights in expatiating on the "bumptiousness" of college students, must lament over the present quiet and lamb-like behavior universally displayed by collegians. We pity the poor man and vainly wonder to what occupation he has turned his marked talents to gain a livelihood. He, alas, has missed one beautiful opportunity. We refer to the recent hazing affair at Trinity, which he suffered to pass by unnoticed, and at which he might have hurled, with great effect, the bolts of anathema from his elevated and important seat, and, by a vigorous...