Word: gave
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...game of which, above all other games, Rugbeians are most conservative. A fiat has gone forth that in future all shins, unless the ball is between them, are to be inviolate. Deprived of its most distinctive feature, Rugby foot-ball exists no longer in the school that gave it its title and its birth. Of the expediency of the change we can venture no fixed opinion. It has probably been found necessary to benefit the school at the expense of the game. Of its unpopularity there can be no question; and there will probably be much gnashing of teeth...
...lower bridge was reached, Harvard's slow and steady work had brought her a foot or two ahead, and now this lead was steadily increased. Columbia struggled desperately, and hung on for another half-mile, and up to that point, a little below the first mile-flag, she gave Harvard a hard race. Here the two boats came into dangerous proximity; for a few strokes they rowed over and under each other's oars, and people held their breath. "Harvard, Harvard!" shouted the referee, and Harvard, responding to a slight strain on the rudder-lines, and to the only spurt...
...home some time before the Columbia race, and his place was filled, on Tuesday, by Mr. Littauer, who did gallant service for Harvard. Mr. Crocker, however, with admirable self-sacrifice, returned to his fellows on Tuesday; and the knowledge of his presence-once more in the bow gave the wearers of the crimson fresh confidence in the result of the race with Yale. On Friday morning our crew were rowing better than Yale, and looked much stronger and more reliable; and it was then evident that, without accidents, the race would not be so close as the daily papers...
...each circle of friends, the recollections that come, and must come of necessity, on a day like this. Yet, though I do not undertake to recall them by name, perhaps I may be permitted to make one exception in this hall dedicated to the memory of those who gave their lives for the Union, and recall him who was our marshal the first time that we came here, who was as truly a martyr of the war as if he had fallen on the field; though permitted a few years of painful life, yet was very vigorous, courageous, and faithful...
...Lowell, in responding, incidentally remarked of Professor Sibley that he [Mr. Sibley] had given more to the cause of education, in accordance with his means, than anybody else ever gave in his lifetime, and closed by saying that