Word: look
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last days. It has become generally very popular only the last year. The place of Mr. Thorne, who was Yale's best representative last year, is hardly filled by any one at present. Should the proposed tournament with Trinity take place, Yale would have to look sharp to her laurels...
...Cambridge letter to the Providence Journal says: "It is a long, steep pathway to the beetling heights of Cambridge culture, but once there, the air is deliciously cool and fresh, the view superb, and the opportunity to look down upon one's fellow-men not only unparalleled but irresistible." The same letter intimates that in Cambridge society Harvard students are regarded as cyphers...
...progress of work upon the new Law School building is watched with some interest by those students who look forward to studying within its walls. The walls are finished as far as the second floor, and well fulfil the promise of elegance made by the architect's description of the building published last spring. The combination of light and dark stone in the east and west facades is unique. A large tablet has been built into the east end for an inscription. The lecture rooms have already assumed a form from which their size and convenience may be judged...
Foot-ball practice is steadily maintained and excites much interest among the students. The strength and amount of skill brought out so constantly in the game render it highly exciting to look upon. It is still early to make just comparisons between the team of this year and that of last, and to judge of our chances of success this year. The eleven of this fall will be somewhat lighter than that of last. There is a great deal of fair material from which to draw for the vacant places on the team; that which is excellent is still wanting...
...London Field says that in America the class from which English amateurs spring look down on rowing, and, "unless at their universities, the young men of good family would as soon be seen by their parents in a casino as in the ranks of a rowing club." The Field's ignorance is certainly very dense...