Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Hurley at right end is heavier and stronger than Flershem, but both play a good, hard game. The chances seem to be in favor of Hurley, though Flershem has been playing longer, and works better with the team. At quarter Valentine has fallen off in his work, but he still holds his own against Flint, his nearest rival. Wadsworth may come from the 'varsity and possibly shut out Valentine. though he is not so quick. Shepard at left half runs hard, but does not use his eyes and fumbles the ball frightfully. Gibbs, the other half, is a good ground...
There must still be men in the University with musical or literary ability enough to replenish the depleted stock songs. Have none of them the ambition...
...pride Yale will not pay for college sports. She considers them worth preserving with competitors in whose sportsmanship she has confidence, and who have reciprocal confidence in her sportsmanship. This also means her clean, honorable, forbearing rivalry on every field. She was led to doubt whether Harvard still extended that confidence in her. If Harvard did not, if there was danger that these old struggles would lead to constant disagreement, she believed they should cease. It was to settle this question that my letter was written. If Harvard's position has been misinterpreted, I saw no reason...
...repetion of Yale's experience since the Harvard game. Unless then such contradictions come from you would it not be wiser to allow the feeling thus engendered to cool with time rather than to enter upon a contest with these recollections fresh in our minds? Should you still be unwilling to do us justice in this way we have concluded to arrange no game with you. Let me assure you, however, that in case a proper contradiction of these charges is made we shall take pleasure in arranging a game with you, and have up to this time reserved...
...Another young man has visited a bed-ridden child who had been discharged from the hospital, but whose case the hospital doctors wished to follow through a volunteer visitor. Other students have heldped run Boys' Clubs. Another man, preferring religious work, has taken a class in a mission Sundayschool. Still another has given talks to groups of poor children in the Home Libraries, on the lives of some famous authors, whose works the children had been reading. Again, under the auspices of the Society for Home Savings, students have visited poor families, and encouraged them to save what they could...