Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...largest that Yale has made, that exception being the Yale-Columbia game of 1881, when the score was thirteen goals and several touchdowns for Yale to nothing for Columbia. Columbia's two best players, Morgan and Henry, were absent. The Yale team was minus Camp, and it is thought that his loss will be a permanent...
...prevent a choice for some time, and finally force an undesirable election. The rules recommended on this point have been found effective and just in the elections for three years back at least. Still, as fairness and not time is the primary consideration, the matter is worthy of much thought on the part of members of the class. It might be well to consider individual cases and suspend the rule by a majority vote, where manifest unfairness would follow a strict observance of the rule...
...back to be thrown up in the centre of the field. On the other hand, the number of players was much larger then than now, sometimes as many as three hundred; the distance between the goals was usually 500 or 600 yards. In those early days the exercise was thought to be a "severe and tempting one." The players wore little clothing beside the breech-cloth. The night before a game was devoted to fasting and prayer; the great Yo He Wah, the Deity, was invoked. The skill displayed in these games was much greater than at present...
...memory of many a symposium), and a young gentleman was seated between Judge E. R. Hoar and Mr. Dana. There was a general discussion upon the merits of the candidate, which reached back and forward. This young gentleman - younger then than now - listened and gradually grew merry with the thought of the perturbation which the planetary orb of Butler was producing in the political system. He was not a friend of Butler - then or now - but the gravity of his companions at the table, instead of oppressing him, seemed to create a mirthful disposition. The character of Butler...
...position of the faculty, we believe they acted as to them seemed best. It is not strange, nor is it any act of discourtesy, that they did not accede to the proposition of the Harvard faculty. Circumstances are different in many respects in the two colleges, and what is thought necessary for the good of the college at Harvard may not seem to be here. Professionalism in athletics certainly does not exist at Yale, as it perhaps does at Harvard. We have no professional trainer here among us to watch over and direct the movements of our athletes...