Word: roped
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...policy with regard to English Composition was, we believe, an economic one. The new policy continues, apparently, from force of custom, though it has its advocates. They argue, among other things, that the average man taking a Composition course regards writing correct English as a stunt, like tight-rope dancing, to be performed only on special occasions in the class-room. This argument has some truth in it, but it is fair to suppose that a man will in the end fall quite involuntarily into the use of his special parlor accomplishment in his daily work. Moreover, this...
...field. Yale kicks off. Seamans almost runs in to Yale's goal, but stops 35 yards away and tries a drop kick. The ball sails squarely for the posts, but Trumbull jumps in the air and stops it with his hand just as it is crossing the cross-rope. Yale kicks out and the half-hour terminates with the ball 10 yards from Yale's goal...
...first of interest owing to the fact that it was played under the Canadian code of rules. The principal difference between the Harvard and Canadian rules was, to quote a daily paper of that date, that, "under the Harvard rules the ball must be kicked over a rope extending across the entire field while according to McGill's plan the ball must be kicked over a wooden bar 10 feet from the ground." For some time previous to the contest the team was drilled by night on Jarvis Field. Although this game represented the crudest kind of football, compared with...
Section 7, C. E. Cooley, first two rows. Section 8, L. B. Woodward, first two rows. Press Stand, C. E. Morris, J. L. Miller, M. M. Glick, E. W. Moses. Rope section 12, W. F. Cogswell, W. C. Hatch, F. T. Hertell. Rope section 19, N. L. Torrey, R. Vicario, D. Clark. Rope section 25, H. W. Birch, C. W. Birch, E. McLaughlin...
...serious accident occurred last evening at quarter past eight when H. T. Gibson '12, fell from the fourth story of Stoughton to the ground while trying to lower himself from the fourth floor to the third by means of the rope fire escape...