Word: sky
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...football squad yesterday for nearly an hour in preparation for the Annapolis game tomorrow. There was no scrimmage, but only light work. The backfield candidates were first taken out onto the Freshman gridiron and given practice in catching punts with the sun in their eyes and against a clear sky. Coach Daly instructed the backs in heeling fair catches facing the sun and with the opposing team running down on them. The results were very satisfactory. Burr got off some long spirals of fifty yards and more...
Decorated trolley cars will then take the Class at law-defying speed to Rowe's Wharf, where it will board the "Lusitania," nee "King Philip," Fighting Bob, our captain, will then weigh anchor (500 pounds or thereabouts) and, assisted by his enthusiastic sky-pilots, will steer into mid-stream. Fairly bound for Nantasket Point, the keg-tappers start their work. On arriving at the Point, baseball games, track meets and swimming races will occupy the time until the tempting odor of a barbecue announces the serving of a collation by Oscar, of the Waldorf. Singing by class talent will beguile...
Yesterday came the announcement like a flash from a clear sky that the three Deans are no longer to be ex officiis members of the Athletic Committee, but that "three members of the faculty of arts and Sciences" are to be "appointed by the Corporation with the consent of the Overseers." This virtually means that the recommendation of the Joint committee on the regulation of Athletic Sports, after less than a year's trial; is to be partially, if not absolutely ignored. The "standing rules and orders of the President and Fellows and the Board of Overseers, concerning the regulation...
Echoes to the sky...
...Harvard cheers that rent the crimson sky...