Word: played
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only are some of the articles without merit but several have grave faults, and the number as a whole has no redeeming features.- except its copious clippings from the Christian Union. The first editorial discusses the football question in a spirit hardly compatible with the principles of fair play laid down by Harvard. The writer urges that our position should be maintained simply because we have adopted it, and concludes: "At any-rate whatever happens-since Harvard has taken a certain course we think men ought not to make fun of it but defend it, and bear in mind...
...season of 1889 has been a successful one for football. The game has not only grown in popular favor, but there has been a marked improvement in the general playing. The scores made in the intercollegiate league show this development in the playing of all the teams, and a tendency on the part of all to play an aggressive game. Last year the winning elevens, in almost every case, shut out their opponents, and Yale did not have a point scored against her during the entire season; but this year the stronger teams have not been able to prevent...
...York and Manhattan Athletic clubs will play a match game of football at the polo grounds today. This will be the last game either eleven will play this season...
...will still remain better than before our withdrawal. It is foolish to harbor the fear that we may not have antagonists in the future, even if we remain outside every league. Neither Yale nor Princeton can afford to refuse to contest with us, and Yale, certainly, would prefer to play with Harvard rather than with any other college. Nothing can break down the time honored rivalry which has existed between the two colleges. As for Princeton, she is hardly in a position now to refuse a challenge, that is, a challenge to a contest, from Harvard. All things considered, then...
...sickly child but showed great ability in speaking, often addressing his little sister from a chair. He was forced into a military school to learn a profession, but feigning sickness was taken to the hospital where he succeeded in obtaining pen and paper and composed his "Robbers" a play laid in the fields and woods of Germany. At this time his condition was most wretched but with the assistance of friends he was enabled to continue his literary work. Then the professorship of history at Jena put him on a firm financial standing and allowed him to marry...