Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...greet the "old fellow," start out with a discussion of the late Princeton game, and finally conclude that Harvard men don't know how to play foot ball anyway. Meanwhile we have been looking around. 'Gentlemen will not occupy the seats until the ladies are seated," is the first thing to meet our eyes. In another quarter we spy the notice, "No visitors on Sunday," and innocently conclude that Mr. Snodkins spends his Sundays at home. That Snodkins is an '85 man is very soon made evident. A large '85 is upon his door, made as first appears from postal...
...wish to say a few words to the members of the class of '85. No man likes to have his picture taken. It is looked upon as an extremely disagreeable thing to prepare one's self for this trying ordeal. Nothing compares with it, except perhaps a visit to the dentist. It has become recognized, however, as an established custom for every class to have their pictures taken, and to this end a photographic committee is selected whose duties, even when ably seconded by the class, are no light burden. Now we ask you, members of '85, is it right...
...player who forces it over must at the moment be in immediate contact with one of his opponents; otherwise the ball is "cool," and is quietly kicked off into the middle of the ground by one of the side over whose lines it has passed, and the same thing happens when one of that side is the first to touch it behind the line. When a rouge has been claimed and allowed, an adjournment is made to the goal of that side against whom it has been given. A yard-the longest yard that youthful legs can stride-from...
...allowed as a means of propulsion." Eton "plays a hybrid game in two different ways, 'at the Wall' and 'in the Field,' the latter being a sort of mixture of both kinds of play." Mother Eton has been a good deal harried and mocked in these latter times, poor thing ! But surely so baseless an imputation as this has never yet been cast upon her. We had always thought the game as played in "the Field" at Eton was the purest form of football known, the most essentially foot ball of any. On no excuse whatever may the hands...
...forward on the full reach. If an oarsman negligently allows himself to overreach, his hold upon the water when first dipping his oar will prove to be jerky, consequently destroying that uniform steady sweep which should characterize a Harvard crew. A firm, upright body is then the first thing our men should...