Word: rather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that now the position of Yale and Harvard, in all branches of inter-collegiate athletics (excepting for second place in tennis), is first and second, and that the time is opportune to make the change suggested. It may be said with force that tennis is a game of individuals rather than of a team, and that the same is partially true of track athletics. If these two were to remain as they are, it would not seriously interfere with the ideas of this article...
...procured for him, he pulled out of a hidden recess, a carefully tied up parcel, which he unrolled very gingerly, and at length displayed to the admiring audience a large crimson rosette with which he was going to decorate himself the following day. This brought down the house, (or rather the boat) and completed John's bliss. After a comfortable smoke on the deck, enlivened by a number of songs with jolly choruses, your correspondent turned in for the night, and was soon snoring a deep accompaniment to the melodious (?) swish of the paddle wheels...
...Poet of the Dawn" is a rather more ambitious poem than has appeared in the Advocate for some time. It has a great many points of merit, and, barring some few lines, appears sincere and coming from the heart not from the rhymester, as so much of college poetry does, alas. The stanzas...
...this the answer has been returned that there are no colleges in which the standard of football is high enough to warrant our choosing a referee from them. If this is the case, let us by all means have graduates of Yale, Harvard or Princeton for our judges, rather than take a man who is at the time a regular member of one of the competing league elevens. Private animosity is more likely to crop out in the latter than in the former case...
...reserved books. Under existing circumstances they have but little time for such consulation, since the books are necessarily limited to one or, perhaps, two copies, and "first come, first served" is the motto of the library. Consequently those who are really anxious to keep up with their work are rather disheartened when, day after day, they find the coveted reference book in some early bird's hand. Of course this cannot be directly helped, as the library cannot supply enough copies of every book to distribute to the whole college. But it does seems as if, with the money...