Word: leader
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale men appeared five minutes later. Fate, however, was against the New England college. At 10.45 the four surviving Yale men who were still able to wield their clubs cried for quarter, and the referee, announcing that Princeton had won the championship, delivered the ball to the Princeton leader. The casualties are : Three Yale men and three Princeton men killed; four Yale men and seven Princeton men wounded, two of the latter not being expected to recover. Robinson and Brown, of Yale, have each both legs broken, and Jenkins, of Princeton, has lost an eye and all his front teeth...
...soloist for each evening. Now that we have heard Mrs. Henschel, all would certainly be pleased to hail Mr. Henschel also in a vocal solo. The exhibition of his rare powers in this direction would be of as much gratification to his audience as his success as an orchestra leader has been, and it is to be hoped that we may hear him as a soloist at an early date...
...front, the word is given for the kick-off (first blow), then the struggle has begun. The Freshmen's head man, with his backers, throws himself into the heart of the Sophs, and is knocked down without the least ceremony. The indignant class rush forward to avenge their leader. Then one was deafened by the cries, - "At them, Freshies!" "Down with them, Sophs!" the Seniors urging on the Sophomores, and the Juniors the Freshmen. Soon the football was forgotten, and the game was wont to take the appearance of the traditional bloody rush. Usually the fight became so fierce that...
...does not apply of course to all Westerners, but to that particular and perhaps representative class whose characteristic is independence carried to an extreme. This man will not worship at the shrine of birth, breeding, or refinement, but he will render hearty homage to an energetic worker, an able leader, a manly man. Before the end of his course he will probably appreciate the value of literary pursuits, and even if he does not devote himself assiduously to the task of remedying his own deficiencies in this department, he is scarcely to be blamed. There are few Easterners whose culture...
...BURDETT, '81, has consented to lead the Glee Club for the Greek Play Chorus, and the Annual Spring Concert. Mr. Pendleton, '82, has been elected second leader...