Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foundation truth of athletic success, and needs to be practiced as well as understood. We do not propose to launch forth into extended exhortations-a style too common in college and school publications-but merely to call to mind the facts. Harvard tried her very best in football this past season. The result was she put into the field the best team she has ever had, and made a better showing than she has ever made before-this with an unbroken line of defeats in the past for encouragement. In other branches of athletics she has a better record...
There may have been times in the past when the Advocate had some excuse for existence, but nothing in the last two numbers of that paper warrants anyone in wishing it to continue to live. The first editorial in the number which appeared December 13th, is the most puerile I have ever had the misfortune to read in any Harvard publication...
During the past year the University of Pennsylvania eleven played thirteen games, winning seven and losing six; 200 points were made while their opponents scored...
...rowing at least, the anticipated dual league will be a reality this year. Even since the withdrawal of Yale and Harvard from the intercollegiate association, the New London race has been growing in interest and importance until now it holds the first place in the spring contests. In the past the races with the smaller colleges have aroused no great enthusiasm and have only detracted from the interest in the great race. Yale's decisive action in this matter shows her desire to form a dual league in boating, which we hope will soon extend to all branches of athletics...
...case aright, Harvard is today more nearly in a position favorable to her own interests than she has been at any time during the last few years. Heretofore scarcely a football season has passed without some disagreeable controversy. The climax came this year. If we may trust our past experience, then, the action which we took in withdrawing cannot be so bad in its consequences as pur continuation in the league another year would almost necessarily have been. If worst comes to worst under the present circumstances, our condition will still remain better than before our withdrawal. It is foolish...