Word: taming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...leads to the introduction of features which draw crowds, independently of the merit of the game and the spirit of fair play; it induces men to put themselves in the hands of speculators; it cultivates a passion for excitement in players and spectators which make ordinary games seem tame, thus depriving the great majority of college students of a motive for physical exertion. Therefore...
...roughness of the game then played : "The old foot-ball player, although by no means of necessity an old man, is rather a melancholy spectacle, looked at from his own point of view. He haunts the scenes of his past exploits in the same enthusiastic, but saddened and tame, manner in which the retred tallow chandler of old story haunted New-gate-street on melting days, and imbued with very much the same feelings. He feels amply qualified to join the active throng before him ; he feels an almost irrepressible inclination to throw himself in the midst of the play...
...eminent Americans, and, as it was near luncheon time, we thought we would wait to see whether the American student played as good a knife and fork as our own Cambridge boys at home; and how the two groups compared as respects their physical development. It is but a tame business for an onlooker to watch a student in his rooms dipping his beak into the Pierian spring and then throwing his head back, like a bird, to let the learning get down - because the onlooker can make little of the observation. But when the same student leaves his tomes...
Messrs. Pendleton and Page were the contestants in the second drawing of the Middle-weight Sparring. The first round was rather tame, no good work being done by either party. In the second round, Pendleton drew the first blood by an adroit cross counter. The third round was more exciting, but unskilful. The second drawing was won by Page...
...That news is very scarce at this period of the college year in Hanover, no one, who has inhabited the place for a winter, can reasonably doubt. In fact, although Hanover is a splendid place in summer, we shall have to admit that in winter it is rather tame, to say the least. The snow has been at work for the last week, taking its day off and on, regularly, so that, by this time, the place has begun to exhibit its usual winter aspect, thus fulfilling the prophecy of the "oldest inhabitant" that Hanover never gets left in winter...