Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale rush-line played a magnificent game. Every man knew what he had to do, and did it well. They made good holes and protected the runner in great shape. It was in vain that our rushers and backs would try to get through the line with the ball. Even when they did find what looked like a hole a Yale rusher was sure to come round from the further end and stop the runner before he got to the backs. In fact their backs did very little tackling and are evidently not so good as the rush-line. Watkinson...
...time to kick a goal. Score, 24 to 0. The second half showed a marked improvement. The fellows braced up, and played with more snap, and the work in the centre was quick and good. The result was a better looking score. Porter was playing in great shape, and time and again he carried the ball almost to the Technology line, knocking off the Technology rushers in great shape. Holden, too, was running well. Harding made two touchdowns, Porter two, Holden two, and Dudley one, from which Harding kicked five goals. Score, 58 to 0. Woodman and Adams...
...factory, things of machinery, but the church or the college, things of men, stand forth like great human beings and accept their titles when we call them he or she. And just because she has human life within her in its most vivid, and eager, and critical time and shape, does a college most readily and thoroughly become the subject of the mysterious and beautiful process by which out of the confused and tumultuous experiences of countless men, there issues as sure as we gaze upon their one great image which is strangely at once the aggregate of embodiment...
...esplanade in front of the gymnasium was a glare of torchlight and a blare of horns. Drays loaded with special features were placed along the sidewalk, while mounted officials galopped hither and thither pushing and driving the restless crowd into shape. Much merriment was caused at this time by the freshmen lighting their torches long before the parade began, and thrusting them into each other's callow faces, and under the spectators' noses with childish glee. The veterans from '87 and '88 stood indifferent and unmoved while this pandemonium was going on about them, and greatly facilitated proceedings...
...Loeb also carried a huge transparency in the shape of an ink bottle, with a pen protruding from the neck. It bore the legends, "Watch for the joke on the other side," and "CRIMSON...