Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Please let me add that I do not have in mind a rough burlesque like the antiques and horribles who make our Fourth hideous. There could be any number of ludicrous take-offs and droll fancies, yet well, and picturesquely arranged...
...Harvard Lampoon designates the CRIMSON as the "Crime's Own." That is a good pun, Lampy, but isn't it rather rough on crime? - Courant...
...foot-ball eleven for the year '86-87 shows that the 'varsity team is still alive and that an earnest attempt will be made to pursuade the faculty to allow Harvard to be represented next year. The Yale Princeton game was so satisfactory that former arguments against rough playing are nugatory. Good work this fall has kept the foot-ball men in good trim, and although '86 will be greatly missed, we have no doubt that the new captain will form a worthy 'varsity team...
...pleasantest feature of the Yale-Princeton game was the absence of the rough and brutal play which characterized the game at New York last year. There was just as much rivalry and just, as much spirit shown, but the players seemed to realize that they were not brutes but men. We were likewise much pleased at the very fair and impartial accounts of the game, written by representative Yale and Princeton men, which appeared in the Sunday Globe. When we recall the bitter feeling which was manifested on both sides after the game last Thanksgiving, and the wrangling which...
Spectators remark that the '86 eleven is playing a very rough game...