Word: rests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upper classes having old and experienced men in their boats can easily get down to their best form by the first of May, while the freshmen show by their present superiority over all former freshmen crews at this time of the year, that with a like improvement for the rest of the winter and spring, they will be in excellent condition to row the race at the proposed date...
...down to work and by the fine running of the rush line the ball was brought down the field almost to Yale's poles. Harvard lined out, and in a twinkling their half-back, Austin, receiving the ball, sent it square over the bar, tieing the score. During the rest of the three-quarters the game was carried on almost entirely in Yale's territory, but our men played rather unsteadily and failed to score, Yale touching back five times for safety. Adams and Ayers did capital rushing, and at one time Austin sent the ball directly over...
...time in Harvard's own back-yard," thereby insinuating that the referee worked against Yale in favor of Harvard, when, as every body knows, it was for Princeton's advantage to have Yale win, it seems that insult has been added to injury. Not content, however, to let matters rest here, the Yale News felt itself called upon to uphold the tone of its college by directly insulting the captain of our team, covertly charging him with connivance with Princeton to cheat Yale. What grounds the News had for making so serious a charge, we have no means of knowing...
...spirit and aims of our Vassar contemporary are high and altogether worthy. If the rest of the college world will but join in the scheme with as sincere and earnest a purpose as is exhibited by our sisters at Vassar, its outcome and uses would no longer remain uncertain...
...this change may, after all, find itself in the pleasant future gazing upon a delusive vacuity of non-realization of its beloved scheme. That co-education does (perhaps very properly) assert its existence at other colleges is not an argument for its adoption at all - at Harvard among the rest. That Harvard is in any way bound to pervert its generous endowment, founded for exclusive purposes, which it is now faithfully fulfilling, and to admit women to all these privileges, while there are already entirely adequate means for the higher education of women provided at other colleges...