Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton kicked and Yale returned to Princeton's twenty-five yard line. Graves sailed through a hole right in the middle of Yale's rush line, but Yale finally lost the ball on Princeton's ten-yard line. A horrible fumble cost Princeton seven yards more. Cowan could not push forward enough and Ames missed his kick right behind his own goal. The air was blue with Yale men dropping on the ball, and thus Yale scored her second touchdown. Princeton gained a few yards on her V trick, and at this point Carter was ruled off for foul tackling...
...side of Massachusetts Hall. "Cambridge on the Charles" is a wide view across the river marshes of the trees and spires of the town. The stream winds on unrippled in the sun and the drowsy shade is massed densely in the distance, while the square shoulders of Memorial Hall push up into the sky on the right. Low in the middle distance is the cupola of Hemenway Gymnasinm, and further on a slender spire or two more. The whole thing is dreamy and soft and full of summer. "Elmwood" shows one side of Lowell's home with a view...
...than all, snobbishness. What is a man does assert himself too forcibly or is a trifle "fresh?" It is not a vital fault. Why suppress him? It is not always the blase or the brainless however that bray: "What an ass!" Many a man while secretly admiring independence and push, joins in with the popular chorus against the offender. Few undergraduates have any idea how childish and inane this spirit of repression appears to men outside of the college...
...college paper which labors under more difficulties than the Lampoon and none in which success should be more assured. The experiment of starting the same kind of a publication at other colleges has proved a dismal failure, and every student should show his appreciation of the energy and push which has been displayed in conducting the Lampoon successfully so many years by giving it his support...
Great excitement was occasioned in the yard last night by the little game of "Push, gently Push," played by the sub-juniors and freshman. Much gore was spilled, one freshman having received a bloody-nose in the fray. He was rescued and carried from the field by his gallant nurse, who administered pap to him in small doses. The latest advices say he is slowly recovering and his faithful nurse, Mrs. Maginnis is the heroine of the hour...