Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...especially in the foot-ball season, as the amount of daylight after four o'clock is very limited. As a result, the games are generally played two half-hours instead of two three-quarters as is the regular rule of the game, and in spite of this the latter part of the games are generally played in semidarkness. Since the adoption of the new time standard, the rule has become more objectionable than ever before. According to the present arrangement, play cannot begin until quarter past four by actual time. This leaves a ridiculously short space for a game...
...eleven and the college must now devote all their energies to making a good showing on Thanksgiving day. The play of our team in Saturday's game assures a hard fight, and the experience of that game will prove valuable. There should be no lack of energy on the part of the team nor encouragement on the part of the college...
This is the dangerous part of the season for freshman elevens, when the novelty of the game has begun to wear off and the change of weather makes the practising a little harder. It was thought, however, that '87, anxious as they seemed to be to surpass the record of their predecessors would not allow any temporary inconveniences to stand as obstacles in the path of improvement. Their unexpected defeat seemed to thoroughly disconcert them and a corresponding depression has followed their former confidence. No better lesson could be taught the freshmen than the one they received at Andover unless...
...friends. And now the cry of reform is raised by an undergraduate of that college. While we do not doubt that investigation will do good to almost anything, we fear that any investigation of such a subject as secret societies will result in nothing but angry defiance on the part of the students who naturally feet that their privileges are being violated. Undergraduates are not apt to accept with any degree of grace, dictation from their alumni, believing as they do that they themselves are reasonable beings and can institute reforms if reforms be needed. The undergraduates of Harvard have...
Whether with justice or not, "Yale enthusiasm" has been largely attributed to her society system. This fact will prove a serious stumbling-block in the part of the reformer. Of the merits of this particular case, however, we know nothing, although believing that, in general, college societies are productive of more good than evil. That they could be made productive of still more good in the case of every college, we do not doubt for an instant...