Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...FOOT-BALL ELEVEN expects to play the Yale Eleven at New Haven two weeks from to-morrow. The Princeton match will probably take place some time before the game with Yale...
...community nor the traditions of the college are such as to encourage sporting habits. A large proportion of our students - large enough to determine the prevailing tone of the institution - are sons of farmers, - frugal, industrious fellows, who are working their own way through college, and who, at the time of the regatta, are swinging the scythe in the hayfield, or handling the compass and chain on the railroad. Besides, though they are poor, they are proud, and would regard it as beneath the dignity of a free-born Vermonter to expose their muscle in public, like gladiators...
...from the straight path of virtue - had better stay away from Saratoga until some one can "insure" them against the intrusion of the aforesaid gamblers and blacklegs; and as at present there is no company which takes risks in that line they are likely to remain away for some time to come...
...necessary to have sappers and miners, it appears to me that the Harvard Rifle Corps might be instructed, and at the same time utilized, by digging ditches, etc., for these would answer the same purpose as trenches, and be infinitely more useful...
...such contests, provided that there were no gamblers or blacklegs to mar the rural simplicity of the occasion. What a proud day it would be for old Harvard to witness her sons manfully endeavoring either to outplough and outhoe their competitors, or to dig ditches of given lengths against time! Then, and not until then, can we realize that we are engaging in some useful and honest work, and not foolishly spending our time and forces in such an exhibition of brute strength as a regatta...