Word: resultants
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...result of the foot-ball game at Princeton on Saturday was all that the most sanguine could have expected. It must be remembered first that the men on the eleven have been entirely out of practice for years, secondly that most of them have never played against Yale or Princeton at any time, and thirdly that they have been compelled to overcome a widespread notion, or bitter prejudice, that Harvard men cannot play foot-ball any way, and would do well if they never tried. With all these obstacles in its path the team has met the champion foot-players...
...foundation for that feeling, and likewise to discover whether a year of idleness has destroyed all the foot-ball talent that far back in past ages once existed here. We can all rest assured, at any rate, that the men will all do their best, and that the result will be a criterion of the strength of the two elevens...
...eleven has gone to Princeton practically unsupported. The game does not occur until to-morrow afternoon, so there is yet time for those who have been negligent or those who have as yet been undecided. The result of the game will be much closer than many expect. A possible victory ought not be turned to defeat for lack of enthusiastic spectators...
...those who were present at the class meeting fifty years later were to place their signatures in the right hand division on the same line that they had fifty years before written the same name. Besides this, all living graduates were asked to sign or send their signatures. The result is that this book is rich in valuable signatures dating from 1669 on. The oldest of these is that of Danioll Egedston, Esq., of the class...
...longer that he does his special work. Alas for the institution that does not feel all life clamorous and profuse about it the longer that it goes on building its little corner or laying its bit of the foundation of the great structure. Each has missed the best result of living, which in that life enlarges itself by its own healthy action - Solvitur ambulando - and grows more conscious and more receptive of the true element of its existence, the larger and more fully it does its work...