Word: though
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mentioned, yesterday, one annoyance that is endured, though unwillingly by those of us who frequent the gymnasium. But, as John B. Gough used to remark of the cold-water question, "it is a large subject," and perhaps a few words more will not be out of place...
...annual Christmas recess is drawing near, and it may not be out of place to express again the prevailing sentiments of the students as to its duration and arrangement. The Puritan founders of our college, as is well known, were a narrow-minded set of men in some particulars, though great and good in others. One of their exhibitions of narrowness consisted in their condemnation of the celebration of Christmas as an institution of Romanism, a lineal descendant of the east of the Saturnalia of the Pagan Yule Tide, etc. Now a relic of this ancient Puritan narrowness has come...
...design. The medals or seals of the various college societies are placed in a rather artistic way here and there on the page. The Advocate's Pegasus and Lampy himself are there, and the CRIMSON is represented by the color of the ink in which the design is printed. Though the arrangement and prominence given to the different societies might have been a little more judicious from an artistic point of view, the cover is a great improvement on its previous and will be a fit one to shelter all the valuable information contained in this little volume...
...Yale freshmen did not play a good game on the whole. Their blocking was bad and their tackling very high, and there seemed a roughness and uncertainty among the rushers which prevented most of their tricks from working well. Our freshmen played a strong hard game, though not a very scientific one. They blocked well, and the way they broke through the Yale rush-line was perfectly delightful to watch. And when they had got through, there was no standing round looking on. The nearest man to the Yale player who had the ball would seize him and throw...
...Harvard team played a strong and steady game. Captain Brooks had his men under perfect control, and his hard and steady playing contributed much to Harvard's success. Holden played a magnificent game, though troubled with a lame ankle. Peabody's playing was steady and effective, Harding tackled finely, and his rushing and dodging was wonderful...