Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Those who saw the Yale-Princeton game say that Princeton's tactics during the second half were to pass the ball to Lamar and let him run with...
...referee, attempts which happily did not succeed. The vigorous remarks of the '86 captain to his opponents on the subject of closing their conversation were highly edifying, considering the fact that the former was not particularly noticeable for his own reticence in various subjects connected with the contest. Let us hope that in the coming game with '88 the team will act a little more as Harvard students are supposed to act and less like something else...
...honor to their class and their college; and we are sure that the men themselves do not care, so long as they receive some token of appreciation from the college, whether their cups are silver inlaid with jewels, or pewter inlaid with, say, - Bass's Ale! By all means let the Boat Club look into the matter...
...profanity still continued, much to the disgust of the thoughtful audience. It is hardly an admitted trait of the gentleman, and such I presume, these men consider themselves and wish us to consider them, to express themselves in public in such strong, not to say coarse language. Let there be more care by the captains to restrain themselves and their men in the near future and no more complaint need be heard...
...there was a fair-sized meeting, the committee would take it for granted that the students did not care to have anything further done in regard to the grand stand. At the last meeting there were hardly twenty men present and as had been stated the committee decided to let the matter rest. It was from a lack of energy on the part of the students to turn out that nothing was done, and not from any lack on the part of the committee, who were perfectly ready to go on, had the students evinced any such desire...