Word: long
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Princeton men say in regard to George, the centre rusher, that he is a teacher in the Lawrenceville preparatory school, and for a long time refused to come back to Princeton to play foot-ball. He finally agreed, however, to re-enter Princeton when a promise was given him of having his position at Lawrencevile reserved for him. Cash entered only for the foot ball season, the Princeton men say, and in order to comply with the rule that he must stay the year out he will cut so many recitations that the faculty will expel...
...team weakened perceptibly, and the Princeton men got through Harvard's rushline without trouble. It is a question to what was due Harvard's weakening in the last third of the game but the great fault seemed to be that the men were not trained to play such a long and hard game. For a time the Harvard team played a game remarkble both for its strength steadiness and quickness, and if they could have kept it up Princeton would surely have been beaten. It was plain, however, that the strain on the men was too great. At Princeton...
...principal writer of lyric verse was Walther von der Vogelweide who lived a long and wandering life. His themes were principally on nature, politics and religion in all of which he did not hesitate to express his opinion. The versification of this verse is determined by accentmerely since the stanzas differ with different writers...
...Suppose, for example, that a student is very desirious of taking out a reference book, but is unable to be at the library at the proper time; it is more likely than not that he will be forced to waive his wish, and this is but one of a long series of equally plausible suppositions. Then, too, the desire to use reserved books is very considerably lessened under the present system. With a good degree of justice students are unwilling to assume the responsibility of them, particularly when they desire to consult several different works at a time, or when...
...some very fair new material gave proof of its existence. Our outlook in track athletics is rather brighter than last year. The most interesting event of the field day was the 100 yard dash, which was won by Vredenberg in 10s. Carey was a close second. All the long distance runs were ruined by the miserable condition of the track...