Word: growing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...half, and made several fine plays; but a Yale man was always on hand to prevent their reaching the goal. The New Haveners had to fight hard for the third goal, but the fourth, fifth and sixth followed each other in rapid succession. Just as it was beginning to grow dusk a fine run by Twombley gave them the eighth and a moment after the game was closed. The Yale team are a well-knit set of men, good runners as a rule, and work well together through constant practice. They have the advantage of a practice ground near...
There is a practice here, of long standing, nourished by folly and disregard of gentlemanly honor, allowed to grow and increase by the indifference of the college and of its officials, which has long passed its day, if it ever had one,-we mean the cowardly joke of sign stealing. It seems now a recognized thing, that to lead a proper and full college life, one must steal one or more signs-the greater the number the greater the glory. But stealing it is, and to the college at large we doubt if the difference between the undergraduate who "rags...
...ostensible reason for this monthly weighing is that the Faculty desire to ascertain the effect of the meals eaten by the students upon their health. If the students grow fat it will be assumed that their diet is too rich, and if they grow thin it will be regarded as evidence that they are not sufficiently fed. Whether the real end in view is to ascertain upon how little food a student can thrive, and to confine him to precisely that quantity, is not known, but there is certainly room for suspecting that this is Dr. Hamlin's design...
...meet three times a week, twice to row under the able coaching of Mr. Bancroft and once for a walk in the country. No strict training is done. By this arrangement the crew is kept together, has the advantage of a coach and is not likely to grow stale and weary months before the race, as has occurred in former years. The common sense of this will suggest itself to all, for strict training during nine mouths of the year is likely to prove too great a tax for any but the most remarkable physiques...
...constantly at work organizing political clubs, delivering speeches and publishing articles in the newspapers. Immediately after the 'Boston massacre," he was the speaker, of a committee sent to Gov. Hutchinson to demand the removal of the British troops from Boston. It was his words that made Hutchinson grow pale and tremble. His brother, John Adams, the second president of the United States, was the "Author of Instructions of the town of Braintree to their representatives "which was adopted verbatim by more than forty towns. He was one of the committee of Naval Affairs who drew up the rules and regulations...