Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Foot ball, as played by our college elevens, is a very different game from the foot-ball of England. And, in fact, there are two kinds of foot-ball over there. Those who play the Association game think there is nothing like it as a scientific and exciting sport, while the Rugby players are just as devoted to their style of game...
...until five o'clock. At five they take a fast run of a mile out-of-doors, and this ends their work for the day-a little more than an hour having been used. The plan of having two rowing rooms is a very good one, and the men like it. The fact that two crews row simultaneously of course prevents much waiting. and the consequent great waste of time is done away with. The greatest good, however, is that the university crew is no longer molested by the class crews, but has a rowing room exclusively...
...athletic record of the year. Mr. Depew said, read like the triumphal announcements of the heralds at the Olympian games. "With bat and ball and oar, on land on water, the blue has been uniformly triumphant, and Yale reigns supreme," he said. "Columbia cheers and strives to imitate, Princeton applauds and despairs, and Harvard goes back to Cambridge and kicks, but her misfortune is that she does not kick hard enough at the right time. The athletic triumphs of Yale are celebrated by the increasing numbers of the freshman class, for the students at the preparatory schools know what constitute...
...faculty were powerless without it. Drinking, cheating and lying are cases where the only cure is in the education of public opinion. Another example is the toleration among gentlemen of foul play in athletics, making an umpire needful to punish it. Howling at "errors" is extremely ungenerous and unsportsman-like. and is never seen in English universities. The chief object of college education is to implant in tellectual ambition and a high purpose, and this can be done only by a common sympathy for noble ends. Freshmen bring their home standards with them, and there is a decided difference between...
...failure of men to attend the meetings at which the officers are elected throws a large share of the responsibility of whatever mismanagement there may be on their own shoulders. The position that the Advocate takes in regard to the Glee Club is one that all of us would like to see adopted by the faculty...