Word: sided
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...compose a team, fifteen or eleven; and how many touchdowns should equal a goal, if any. Some points in the rules were changed, where the meaning was not sufficiently clear. It was agreed to play fifteen men, to have four touchdowns equal a goal; but in case one side obtained four touchdowns and their opponents a goal, those having the goal to win the game. Further, that we should make alternate visits, one year to Princeton, and the following year they should visit Cambridge, and so on. At this point the delegates from Yale arrived. In answer to the question...
...than ordinary interest to undergraduates, from the fact that three well-known men in college were on the train, and had a marvellous escape from death. They were all in the English coach, which was wrecked completely, but none of them were injured. One of the gentlemen was sitting side by side with a man who was killed instantly. The other two were sitting so near each other that there was just room enough for an iron beam, that broke through the side of the car, to pass between them without striking either of them. Such a miraculous preservation...
...weather for the Freshman race between Cornell and Harvard, and the southerly breeze, which blew quite heavily up the lake and caused some apprehension during the morning before the hour of starting, changed around to the west, so that the course, which was sheltered by high banks on that side, was as smooth as glass...
...have the fortune, or rather misfortune, to be at a table each side of which is presided over by a different deity of the dining-hall. I sat meekly down, and looked around for my Henry; but my Henry was nowhere to be seen. A hungry man cannot wait. I was becoming anxious, when suddenly my Henry came rushing from behind the screen...
After some time I discovered that John was the highly colored gentleman of the other side...