Word: sports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ranks next to base ball and football. We do not understand how this argument is powerful, except in showing that Lacrosse has had the opportunity to gain a firm foothold in College, but has failed, and has in fact been eclipsed by cricket, though the latter is the newer sport. Had Lacrosse been able to obtain a high position in the estimation of our students, by common consent it would have had a field allotted to its use, and would have received pecuniary support, which is the willing and necessary accompaniment of a popular sport. The opponent of tennis further...
...Here and there a kindly-faced professor might be seen playing puss-in-the-corner with a merry group of girls, a copy of OEdipus peeping out of one of his pockets and a Revised New Testament out of another. But one by one the happy revellers ceased their sport, and in parties of two or three withdrew to their respective dormitories...
...considerable number of men have been on the field indulging in this game, and the Twelve, if we may believe report, is in very good condition, all things considered, and there is every prospect of a match with Columbia. While we are bound to regard with some jealousy any sport that is likely to draw away good material from the Eleven and Nine, and divide the interest to any considerable extent, still there seems to be room for all. So we wish those interested in Lacrosse all success, and shall watch their progress with much attention...
...clock, P. M., and at 3.30 o'clock P.M. there are to be running and walking races, in which Messrs. Herrick and Wendell, of the H. A. A., will probably compete. A number of Harvard men also are entered in the Tennis Tournament, and the afternoon's sport will probably prove very entertaining. Mr. Wright deserves the heartiest support of the College men for the careful manner in which he fulfilled his duties as coach of our last year's cricket team, and we hope that the number of College representatives to-morrow at Beacon Park will prove...
...eyes of any one who wanders by the banks of Lake Waban cannot fail to be attracted by the towers of Wellesley College. Mine were, when, after a rather unsuccessful afternoon's sport in the pretty pond, - whose waters were stocked with black bass at about the same time that its shores were stocked with pretty girls - I walked along its wooded banks...