Word: sun
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...twenty Harvard reporters of the New York Sun" it is, we understand, who has displayed his ribald wit in the following licentious verses...
...college club, rush panting up the tow-path, uttering a babel of discordant but exhilarating cries of encouragement to their champions on the water. One by one the graceful craft appear in sight, the oarsmen swinging like a piece of perfect mechanism, the blades flashing in the evening sun, the coxswain anxiously calculating how closely he dare shave the awkward corner looming in the distance, and how soon he shall venture to call upon stroke for that final spurt which shall bring the taper bow within bumping distance of the boat which they pursue. Stroke by stroke the interval...
...high is it raised above the opinions of its contemporaries, - but it is not at liberty to state that these opinions are not "representative in any degree of the sentiments of the college." The Boston Herald, the Advertiser, the New York Clipper, Turf, Field and Farm and the Daily Sun have testified either their general condemnation of Yale's team, or that the general sentiment of Harvard unites in condemning the team. As a slight corroboration of our explanations on our own account we take the liberty of quoting as follows from the last issue of our esteemed contemporary...
...reaction setting in against the excessive fostering of athletics. President Eliot has sounded the esoteric note, and now Dr. Crosby has taken up the cry; and we may be assured that, coming from such a man, it is but the signal for an attack all along the line. - [Cornell Sun...