Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale-Harvard freshman game which was arranged for to-day at New Haven, has been postponed at the request of the Yale team, although no satisfactory reasons have as yet been given for this sudden and uncalled for action on their part. It is rumored that several players who took part in the game last Thursday and are expected to do good work for Yale on the freshman eleven, went out of training rather suddenly Thanksgiving evening, and have not as yet recovered from too much "turkey." Unless Yale can give a satisfactory answer to Harvard for her refusal...
...announcement which we publish in other column of the Committee on Athletics of the Faculty, although certainly sudden and unexpected, is not altogether surprising when we remember the hostile attitude which the committee has maintained towards foot ball for the past two years...
...similar hindrance from a somewhat too previous snow storm. Many a junior recalls with pride the alacrity with which be, then a mere freshman, stepped forward and lent his and to the good work of relieving Holmes Field of its unwelcome coverlet. Many a junior, too, will remember the sudden increase in alacrity with which he surrendered his shovel to some new comer and silently became absent from the cold field after a mauvaise quarts' hear of shivering labor. Well, the field was shoveled, despite the alarming number of desertions, and the men to whose efforts this great work...
...sudden action of the Committee on Athletics, about this time last year, was essentially wrong in method, however necessary it may have seemed in view of the manner in which foot ball was being played. Without any previous warning, some very important regulations were laid down at the last minute, in such an arrogant way that instinctively every student opposed them. Not that anyone objected to the changes proposed, all were aware that the game was unnecessarily brutal. But this sudden awakening of the Committee, just before the great game of the year, seemed uncalled for, if not absurd...
...settling down, though it naturally falls with greater weight upon the shoulders of Freshmen, yet by no means passes by those who have kept three or more terms. The proud possessor of a library, however small, is not pleased to find that during his absence his landlady, in a sudden mania of spring-cleaning, has ruthlessly dragged out and dusted all his cherished volumes, and has replaced them perfectly regardless of size or shape, with that want of an eye to the general effect which is so characteristic of the average lodging-housekeeper...