Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About 700 people gathered on Jarvis field Saturday to see the match for the championship of the freshman classes in Harvard and Yale. The teams were late in getting on to the field, and the crowd had to sit shivering in the face of a cold north-east wind for over half an hour before play was called. The ground was very slippery, making rushing almost impossible and good kicking not a little difficult. A glance at the teams as they entered the field could not fail to detect the great advantage of weight possessed by the New Haven eleven...
...prohibit unfair play, because it is always possible that some "rough" or "sharper" may make unfair plays. One might as well, following their line of thought, give up the Christian religion because of the ten commandments; or like St. Simon Shylites, withdraw from the society of mankind and sit on the top of a pillar because of our criminal laws. Foot-ball can never be anything but a rough, manly sport. For my part I am unwilling to believe that any such low spirit has crept into the game so as to make it dishonest and vicious...
...Moot Courts which were once very popular in the Law School, are to be revived and will be held twice every month, sitting in the great lecture room of the Law School. Professors Gray and Ames are to sit as Judges alternately. The cases will be set by the above professors and the counsel, two for each side in every case and will be chosen by lot. Attendance and participation in the exercises of these Moot Courts is entirely voluntary...
...results of such boorishness attached alone to the men who took part in the affair, but the misfortune of the whole matter lies in the fact that the good name and repute of Harvard must suffer. Even the man who, filled with disgust, must sit in quiet while the performance is going on, feels that he too will be held responsible by the outside world from the mere fact that he belongs to the college where the affair takes place...
...religion and politics should never be brought up for discussion, it does seem as if at Harvard a university club could be formed that might organize a capital petty congress; with men from so many states there is material at hand to draw representatives "to the manor born" to sit for their own commonwealth, and who could and doubtless would gladly make an intelligent study of their own states, so as to prove valuable members, and the discussions would awaken an interest in the management of our form of government, with a knowledge of details in parliamentary meetings and what...