Word: press
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are often occasions in which the press is unfair to college students and their customs, but the defamers of the game of foot-ball have a certain license in their attacks which is not allowed other detractors, owing probably to the apparent fighting which goes on between the rush lines of two elevens. The Boston Record of Monday launched out in a frantic tirade against the barbarity of the Princeton-Harvard game. Now, every one who saw that game knows how devoid of "slugging" it was, how critical the umpiring, and little the kicking. Yet we find the following...
Harvard modestly makes no claim to beating Yale and Princeton. Her only ambition is to keep the scores within a decent limit.- Phila. Press...
...Williams College Press has an idea that Harvard will play its eleven at Williamstown, November 12. This is not the case as that is the day of the Princeton game in Cambridge...
...suggestion made by "Bob" Cook through the medium of the press about a week ago, that the Yale eight sail across the briny deep and do battle with the winner of the great Oxford Cambridge boat race, has aroused in tense interest and enthusiasm among the Yale students and alumni, and has been favorably received all over the country. The fact that no Yale eight ever measured oars with their British cousins lends additional interest to the proposed contest. The only race of an international character in which Yale ever engaged was the centennial regatta, which...
...increased $13,000 by the munificent bequest of Mr. Price Greenleaf. Fully to estimate the position of the poor man at Harvard, we should take into account also, the great opportunities for earning money through private tuition, through innumerable avenues of trade, and through writing for the public press. A large number of correspondents tell of money earned outside of their scholarships. The immense aids provided for our students maintain a balance of condition here, and enable even the poorest to obtain a Harvard education. And what an education it is; how broad and deep and individually stimulating,- the most...