Word: good
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last week the Brown baseball team began winter practice in the cage. Of last season's strong team the only man who has graduated is Robinson, who played right field. There is plenty of good new material and the prospects of a strong team are excellent. Fultz has been re-elected captain...
...Cornell Athletic Council has held a large open meeting at which it was shown that the athletic affairs of the college were in good shape. After the announcement that Coach Courtney was to stay at Cornell for at least three years more, the students cheered for fifteen minutes...
...first is, "that instead of being a good-natured scramble for flowers it has become a fight to pay off old scores." The facts prove this statement to be an exaggeration. I believe the almost unanimous testimony of the men who have witnessed or taken part in the scrimmages of the past few years will bear me out when I say that the following is a more exact statement of the facts: There have been sporadic instances of encounters between quick-tempered individuals. The vaguest rumor is the only foundation for the statement that these men were "scrapping...
...have gathered about the old Tree and revived the memory of their college days. I have no sympathy with the sentimentality which defends a bad custom just because it is an old custom. I believe that the scrimmage about the Tree is not only an old custom but a good one. I believe that it can be and has been conducted in a manly, fair way, and that hundreds of graduates look back upon it as one of their happiest. Class Day memories. The customs and traditions that are left to Harvard men are few enough, and we should treasure...
...objectionable features, however, which have crept into the exercises since the introduction of the class member,- these might easily be removed without destroying the essential value of the affair, which is nothing more than a good-natured, rough-and-tumble scrimmage. It would seem that the suggestion of the Class Day Committee to dispense with the number, and also to lower the wreath, would do away with all offensive roughness, and the necessity of forming large combinations in order to obtain the flowers...