Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Godey's, the oldest of the magazines, follows the good old custom of proffering Christmas confections in their proper season. The December number is notable, therefore, with Yule-tide fiction and verse, besides such seasonable articles as "Holiday Decorations," "Christmas, Past and Present," and "Christmas Day in a Japanese Go-down"-this latter richly illustrated by C. D. Weldon. Perhaps the chief feature of this number is, however, an extensive account of the great "Federation of Women's Clubs," a forerunner of the January issue, which is to be a special "woman's number." Beaumont and Fletcher's dramatic critique...
...been a tacit understanding on all sides that the game of football has been on trial during the season just ended. The influences that threatened for awhile to abolish the game altogether on account of acknowledged evils which had been incident to it, gave way to the honest assurances of its friends that these evils were only incidental, that they were not inseparably connected with the game, and that a fair trial this year would show that football could still be played by college students and gentlemen...
...first place, football during the season has been distinctly a college game; that is, it has been played in a gentlemanly way by unquestionably college men. Secondly, a greater attempt than ever has been made by the athletic management to limit the attendance to college men, graduate and undergraduate, and their friends. The number of persons who have attended the important games in Cambridge, in much the same way that they would be attracted to a prize fight, has been reduced to a minimum. Thirdly, all of our games have been on college grounds...
...days of practice showed this interest even more conclusively than the game itself, and it may be added that the work shown in these last efforts, was more encouraging, and gave the first true prediction of the game's result as it really turned out. Previously in the season Yale's opinions were very reserved, and there was hope instead of confidence, in spite of the encouraging press opinions and the reliance the public seemed ready to put in that hackneyed article, "Yale sand." The Princeton game this year was undoubtedly a hard-fought, even, honorbly played contest, which ought...
West Point defeated Brown on Saturday by the score of 26 to 0. It was the final game of the season for the West Point team and it played harder than ever before...