Word: sided
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...call the attention of the athletes in the University to the Columbia Games, which are to take place during the holidays. This plan of allowing members of other colleges to enter seems to us one of the best that has yet been devised on this side of the water. Not only does it promote acquaintance and a friendly feeling among men from different parts of the country, but it should also tend to improve our records, and eventually make them equal, or even surpass, those of the English Universities. The spirit of competition ought to draw out the best efforts...
...Holden's side, unseen betimes...
...across the fences, and was soon at the head of the line, and the "whipper in" crying to him not to go so blankety fast or he'll tire out the crowd. As they run up the street Ferdy begins to have, oh, such a pain in his side, and you can hear his heart go thumpety-thump against his ribs. It's a sad day for this slender twig of the Van Rasselas stock. At last, after miles of streets and fields (so it seemed to Ferdy), they come to a wire fence with jagged points along...
...rude, not to say brutal" sport. Then the writer goes on to complain of the large number of men engaged in the game, and suggests "that reform is necessary in the direction proposed by some of the colleges, which is to restore the number of contestants on either side to eleven." This is on the ground that there would be more goals made on either side, and that the game would require more skill. That there would be more goals and touchdowns made on either side is safe to acknowledge, but that there would be more chance for skilful playing...
Lies solitary on its side...