Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...three men from the 'Varsity and an experienced captain. But while we think the nine have every ground to be confident, let them not forget that the Yale freshmen have an unusually strong nine, but remember to strain every nerve for the victory which seems to be within their grasp...
...complaint over lack of enthusiasm among their friends. The policy of the team was evidently to play to win the championship matches instead of to score overwhelming defeats over elevens recognized as decidedly inferior, and making use of methods utterly useless against Princeton and Yale. A failure to grasp this policy led the Columbia men to wonder how it was possible for Harvard to out-play Princeton, but had our New York friends succeeded in touching-down once behind our goal instead of ten times behind their own they might have found out that things are not always what they...
...broke the clean score of her victories since '77, and of this their class can be proud. The interest shown in our freshman teams has never even approached the corresponding sentiment at Yale. For that reason, chiefly, the blue has succeeded in holding the class championship firmly in its grasp for the last five years. '86, however, has at last changed the aspect of affairs, for it has awakened and deserved the interest of Harvard by the steady and determined efforts of her eleven. The result will be that this interest will do wonders next fall in encouraging and aiding...
...intelligent young man, a promising student, just back from Brown University, was met at the Union depot by an elderly man, who made a grasp at the young man's hand and even essayed to clasp him in his arms. The young man shook hands with the enthusiastic native in a non-committal sort of way, and said, in not unfriendly tones, "Well, indeed, my dear fellah-I really-your face is rather familiar; it seems to me I have met you somewhere, and yet I can't exactly place you." The father gazed at his distinguished son, and went...
...dispised by the alumni, looked upon with aversion by the teachers of Woodward, Hughes and other preparatory schools, obnoxious to a large number of the patrons of the school, his hold on the rectorship is certainly feeble. Like Tantalus, he reached out after fruit which has constantly cluded his grasp. Like the Samian king, he left a cup untasted to pursue game he failed to secure, and has verified the proverb, 'There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.'" The return of the editors of the Academica is hailed with delight by the whole college...