Word: master
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale A. A. has provided a boxing master who gives free lessons to all who wish to take them...
...GREATE GAME!There was played on ye 5th inst. at ye dawn of daye a greate game of foot-balle between ye youthes of faire Harvarde and ye strong men of Yayle on ye field of Mr. Jarviss. Ye game was watched by ye referee Master Pinkeytighte. Ye game was begun at ye hour of dawn and was closed at ye ringing of ye dinner belle. Many maids and matrons sate on ye fence of rales and saw ye playe. When Master P. had admonished ye players, ye stronge rusherman of ye faire Harvarde youths sallied yth the balle downe...
...fear to establish that same precedent which the CRIMSON fears so much? There is no law that forces the faculty to have a proper regard for it in their management of our affairs; and if next year a petition were to be got up to employ a regular fencing master, the faculty would certainly not be compelled to grant the petition simply because a year before they had granted one like it for another sport...
...happy confidence as an athlete, does not destroy the instincts of the gentleman, but engenders on the contrary equanimity of temper. Your paper fears also that the enjoyment of a special teacher in sparring would, if the conduct of the faculty were at all consistent, necessitate a special master of fencing and dancing. Here you commit a mistake; sparring is a mode of defence which has a national character, as fencing has in Germany, and in the immediate vicinity of the college it is practiced at the approach of the winter meetings to such an extent that three men make...
...eyes to appreciate the reality of dormitory, yard and sanctum. The loneliness, mud, and utter confusion reigning in these places respectively were evidences, alas prima facie, that Christmas vacation has wrought changes only in ourselves. With firmer hearts, therefore, let us come squarely to the front, meet and master our foes, and gain the satisfaction of well earned rewards...