Word: keys
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fire Alarm Box No. 59 at Ramsay's store, Harvard square. Key at the store...
...present object of these rules is partial restriction, not arbitrary prohibition. The ultimate aim is the establishment of a fixed and definite position for college athletics, and to draw a marked line between it, professionalism, and even perhaps the ordinary amateur's position. The key-note to the situation may best be learned from the following remarks, which were made in the course of conversation by a member of the college faculty...
...room in question has been in the past frequented by numbers of small boys who were making a sort of club-room of it. To prevent this it was found necessary to keep it locked. Any one, however, who wishes to be admitted to it can obtain a key by applying at the office of the gymnasium or to any of the attendants...
...Every one in the eleven has his position and his play. More than this, the quarter back play which the Britishers so much despise is the key to the whole game. That whole game is one system and the whole team a machine which depends upon the slightest move of that one man. Would any American player give up the beautiful play which results from this feature - the throws to the halves - the short passes to rushers - the quick kicks by the quarter himself, and take in its place the pell-mell pushing, hacking and butting of the English scrummage...
Daniel Pratt has at length unearthed the corner-stone of modern knowledge. He declared that "the unabridged dictionary is the most sane and valuable book in the world; that it is the key to every problem...