Word: might
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...receive less support from the members of the University than cricket. It is a shame that this game which has been acknowledged for centuries to be a gentleman's sport should be so wantonly overlooked here. Few men probably realize what the cricket eleven has done, or what it might do, if it received its share of support from the students. Beginning yearly with a few good cricketers the eleven is filled up with raw men who practice faithfully by themselves unnoticed and disregarded, and by the time the season is well begun, we have at least a fair cricket...
...range of possibility. Many may say that the non-athletic men don't know about such things and had better use their power of speech on a subject with which they are more conversant. This is, we are convinced, a wrong view. A little more interference by the college might do something to get athletic matters out of the ruts which have held them so long. It might be well to note that no rowing men have been near the boathouse this fall...
...classes at Harvard a generation or more ago, and is much nearer approximation to the conditions that obtain at English universities, where the friends that an undergraduates has are largely those whose acceptance he made at one or another of the great public schools. The conclusion that might be drawn from this change is that, so far as social confederations are concerned, a prominence and importance have been given to the preparatory schools in New England that they did not in other days possess.-Boston Herald...
...American colleges 'have developed it into a game differing in many of its phases from any of its English prototypes;' and the writer goes on to describe the distinguishing characteristics of the Rugby, Association and our regular college game. The leading feature of the Rughy 'was that the player might run with the ball;' of Association, 'that the player might 'charge' -that is, run against an opponent and might not run with the ball;, while our college foot-ball has developed many features of both these forms of the game, besides adding numerous plays requiring skill to execute them properly...
...prevented from crying their wares in the college yard, at least on the steps of the chapel. It has been said that there is none, but if there was a general understanding that papers should not be brought within a stone's throw of the chapel, it might do something in keeping these young business men on the thoroughfares of this town, instead of allowing them to disport themselves on the green in the college yard. Whoever wishes to see a stop put to this traffic and its accompanying evils, let him buy his newspapers on the street and purchase...