Word: manly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...particularly famous for shouldering, shoving, hauling, kneeing and mass-plays. Nor is it played by men in buckram, so padded and protected that the players' grandmothers cannot look at them without a shudder. But it is football, and the kind where the player punishes the ball and not the man. And a man can play it successfully without any strain upon his sense of fair-play or honesty and without any danger of being tempted to forget he is a gentleman. The ball is always in sight and so is the player. It is a spectacular game...
...pour out from the different college gates at about two o'clock on every afternoon, dressed a little more than Adam was when he left the garden of Eden. There are perhaps two thousand of them on their way to their different sports. At Oxford no man sits and sucks his thumbs. No man trusts to his eyes and ears and lungs for exercise. Every man plays something. If he can't get a chance to play once game he plays another. He has been brought up in schools where play is a part of the education. Every...
...first interclass shoot, between 1907-1908, will be held on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3.15 o'clock. Each man will shoot at 50 birds thrown from a Magau trap at unknown angles in strings of 25. The teams will be composed of five men each, and vacancies will be filled by members of the club now in the Law School...
There will also be a series of relay races, in which Harvard will enter teams against both Yale and Pennsylvania. The race with Yale will be approximately two miles, each man running 780 yards. That with Pennsylvania and also the interclass race will be approximately one mile, each men running 390 yards. The pairing of the other relay teams has not yet been arranged. This year the interclass championship will be determined by one race in which all four teams will compete, instead of as formerly by three heats. In place of the 40-yard dash for novices, which will...
...hours. Merit in impromptu debate, rather than in extensive preparation, will be recognized. Men will be marked with from one to five points, according to merit, and will be picked according to the total number of points scored at all the trials. It is therefore more important that a man should speak at each meeting than that he should prepare extensively for any one of the trials. From 12 to 15 men will be retained in all. F. B. Wagner 3L. will act as judge tonight...