Word: roughing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...actively represented in Civic politics and impress itself upon the community as the National parties do, it must have its own agency of expression. It is because of thorough organization and discipline that the National party can afford to ignore the Conscience of the community and to ride rough-shod over its supplications and protests. It is not a bit afraid of numbers if they lack discipline and leadership and ignores them until intoxicated with success it oversteps the limits of prudence and precipitates the cataclysm...
...Princeton course, over which the race will be held, is three miles long and is covered twice during the race. It includes a large variety of conditions--up and down hill, dirt roads, clear grass, rough fields, and jumps ever brooks and other obstacles...
...bigger scores were rolled up, the former being defeated 30 to 0, and Bates 33 to 4. Captain Schumacher scored for Bates on a goal from the field, this being the third successive year that Bates has tallied against Harvard. Wil- liams was defeated 18 to 0 in a rough and uninteresting game, in which neither team played a new-style, open game, but resorted mainly to line plays. The only game played away from Cambridge was with the Navy at Annapolis on October 19. The team was taken some-what by surprise in regard to the Navy's strength...
...repeat that the singing and cheering shows magnificent spirit, and should be encouraged in every way, but that its good effects are entirely spoiled by the rowdyism of a few who are not able to appreciate the spirit which prompts it. Such a "rough-house" should be discountenanced by everyone in the Hall. H. M. GILMORE...
...team. It is an especially fine thing on the part of the fellows under the present circumstances. But there are a number of men in the Hall who either apparently misunderstood this manifestation of loyalty, or who are unable to appreciate it, and see only an excuse to "rough-house," hammering dishes and trays, and throwing articles of food to such an extent that the Hall looked as though it had been the scene of a riot. Not only is this unnecessary but it is entirely inconsistent with the genuine enthusiasm, which it cheapens...