Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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PHILADELPHIA, PENN. The game this morning was well played and steadily contested to the end. The game resulted in a score of twenty-eight for Harvard, while the University of Pennsylvania failed to make a point...
...Oedipus." Whether prejudiced in Harvard's favor or not, I think no one would deny that the "Oedipus" was the much more interesting production. The "Acharnians" lacks that strong human interest which a tragic story has in every age. Personal invective (like the attacks on Lamachus) must lose some point in the lapse of centuries when the attacked person has been well-nigh forgotten, while the sufferings of the Thebauprima are always affecting. Again, the "Acharnians" did not give the spectators that sense of being transported into another world which the "Oedipus" gave. In a word, the illusion was lacking...
...year; but he has never played on a winning team. Brooks played on the university two years ago, and was one of the best rushers on the team; and it is largely owing to his efficient work as captain that the team of this year has reached its present point of efficiency. Adams has played portions of two important games in two years, and was obliged to lay off entirely two years ago on account of a bad knee. Burgess played for a short time on the university two years ago. Porter, Holden, Woodman, Faulkner and Fletcher have played...
Then, it must be remembered that Princeton beat Yale last year, and that her rush-line, whose magnificent playing won the game for her last Saturday, is probably stronger than the Yale rush-line. This point, together with the fact that our backs as well as our rushers, have had time to improve as much between the game last Saturday and the game to-day as they did between the Wesleyan and the Princeton games, ought to make everybody come out to see the game with a confidence that they are going to see the prettiest game they ever...
...official announcements of the Forensic Department have occurred in certain unofficial reprints of the University Calendar, and have occasioned serious inconvenience to those who have depended upon such unofficial reprints for a knowledge of the Forensic announcements. In view of this fact the Forensic Department desires to point out that all students concerned are expected to be acquainted with its announcements as made in regular official edition of the University Calendar...