Word: penns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Spirit of the Times in its report of the Harvard-University of Penn sylvania foot-ball game reflects very severely on the bad blood displayed by several of the piayers, to say nothing of the bad language used. If this report is to be credited we must impress upon Harvard the necessity of mending her manners before playing the championship games. She must not for a moment forget that it is her mission, to which the vulgar straining for victory must ever be secondary, to set before less favored colleges a shining example of how the cultured gentleman plays foot...
Pennsylvania University, Oo-rah! Oo-rah! Oo-rah! Penn-syl-vani...
...Harvard preparatory school, with an endowment of $20,000. has just been founded at Wilkesbarre, Penn...
...claim to hold the first positions in boating on the sole basis of declining to row any races except those between themselves. As long as they hold this position of exclusiveness, it cannot be definitely proved that they are not entitled to the pre-eminence they arrogate. - [University Magazine (Penn...
...assertion of certain Boston papers that it is a continuation of the Harvard Lampoon. It owes less to the Lampoon than it does to the Columbia Spectator, and as Mr. McVickar, Mr. J. Brander Matthews, Mr. F. D. Sherman, Mr. H. G. Paine, Mr. F. B. Herzog, Mr. Arthur Penn and others of the contributors to Life are Columbia men, there is to be detected a slight touch of Boston superciliousness in the contrary assertion. As a matter of fact, Life has had comparatively little college favor, though largely written by college graduates; and some of the best things which...