Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...distinct from that of any paper ever published. It was an original production and soon made its way to popularity and fame. Its editorials were keenly humorous, and its jokes and "binds" were fresh and original, having few "chestnuts" among them. The pictures for the first few years were rough. The artists took less care with their work than those who came later, and the process of printing, etc., was more crude than it is to-day. Nevertheless the pictures as well as the reading matter stamped the paper as the Lampoon, and then when the red cover was adopted...
...influenced, as we said she should, by the outcome of last year's contest. In favor of this view we hear that the Yale '89 crew practically defeated our freshmen two years ago, but the fact that they did not know how to row well enough in rough water, and so did not reach the finish-but the bottom-first has nothing to do with the matter. It is a good thing when a college knows how to take a defeat, even if they are occasional...
...came out looking tolerably unlike prize-fighters the day after. A couple of young men, including Captain Holden, who lay Saturday night about as nearly knocked to pieces without being killed as a young man could, were seriously damaged. The fact is, Saturday's game at Harvard was recklessly rough and full of slugging...
...Wesleyan's twenty-yard line. Piper knocks off about five rushers and gets touchdown. Goal; 76-0. Holden runs to twenty-yard line. Porter carries it over. Goal; 82-0. Beattys hurt in nose and delays game for few minutes. Porter runs. Second man of Wesleyan is disqualified for rough play. Holden touches ball down. Goal...
...main, honorable, studious fellows, and it seems hard that they should receive such a raking over the coals merely because they like a rough-and-ready, good time once in a while. LOYAL...