Word: modus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...resignations of C. Brewer '96, the newly-elected captain of the Harvard football team for next year, and E. H. Fennessy '96, the captain of this spring's crew, have naturally created surprise and wonder among Yale alumni and undergraduates. It is hard to get a solution of the modus operandi, now popular at Harvard, although several prominent Yale athletes have been interviewed on the subject, among them Walter Camp '80, as well as different members of the football team and some of the candidates for the crew...
...Harvard, 1820-1824" is a pleasant reminiscent sketch of life at Harvard College seventy years ago. Mr. Artemas Bowers Muzzey, himself a '24 man, tells of the old professors - their peculiarities and methods. And the picture which he draws for us of the modus vivendi of 1820-24, so opposite in many things to that of the present day, is charmingly vivid...