Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...enthusiasm natural to the pursuit - that the first, the healthful instinct is to cry, Away with it all; give young men their heads; let them go to work without professional guidance and solve the problem as they best can by themselves! This is. however, the dictum of persons like ourselves who are no longer in the actual fight and can afford to assume an impartial and most wise attitude toward the contest, swayed as we are by considerations entirely different from those which met us when, boys in red and blue, we were of the battle...
...lean for advice and from whom to beg the arduous and ungrateful services of a "coach." it was only human that professionals should be paid to look after the stroke and diet of the crews. Professionals were at least kept out of the boat. There is no record like that of the Brasenose Oxford four in 1824, which contained two college men, a professional, and an outsider of attainments unrecorded by the muse of history...
...best lacrosse games ever seen in this neighborhood was played to-day at St. Georges, S. I., between the New York Lacrosse Club and the Harvard College team. In the first half-hour it looked like a sure thing for Harvard, but the New York men rallied in the last 15 minutes and snatched the victory. It was decided to play one solid hour. Mr. Squibb, formerly of Harvard, was chosen referee, and Mr. Page of Harvard and Mr. Hodge of New York, umpires...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: I should like to make a few statements in regard to the general financial condition of the freshman nine, which seem called for by the remarkable attack in your yesterday's issue. The amount of money subscribed to the nine is about the same as was subscribed last year. The amount collected is considerably less. The amount of gate money at the Yale game was small on account of the threatening weather. The cost of uniforms per man was slightly less than that of '89's uniforms. Whatever is absolutely necessary for the needs of the nine...
...social engagements. We would inform this meddler. Why should he question the actions of the nine and its captain? Do not they know better than he? Let him see to it that he meddles no more in matters he does not understand. It has seemed to some, perhaps, like brazen effrontery for the nine to flaunt their striped blazers in the faces of those who paid for them, and to calmly spend their time as best suits themselves, with no apparent regard to the duty they owe their class. But let those malcontents fret no longer, but console themselves with...