Word: touche
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last lecture on Emergencies and Hygiene was given in Sanders Theatre last night. On account of the length to which the subject of hemorrhages carried him, the lecturer could touch but lightly upon the other topics of the evening, scalds, burns, and frost-bites...
...first business before the meeting was the admission of new members to the Association. On motion of Captain Brooks, seconded by Peters of Yale, Harvard was re-admitted to the Inter-collegiate Foot-Ball Association. Two slight changes were made in the rules. The opposing centre rush cannot touch the ball until it is put in motion. By the insertion of the words "or a place kick," rule 32 is made to read as follows: "A kick-out must be either a drop-kick, or a place-kick." After some other unimportant business, the convention adjourned until early next fall...
...called "news" are worked up for the city papers, but with complaints coming to us from three or four different quarters we find ourselves obliged to speak of the matter once more. Setting aside all reference to the frequent misrepresentations of students and instructors of the college, we would touch only upon athletics. The members of the athletic teams are constantly complaining that they and their sports are grossly misrepresented in the city press. That their complaints are, with few exceptions, well founded is too true, but that no such complaints should be well founded is also true. There...
...Russian literature and his thoughtful estimate of the piece in question, The Revisor, make what he says worthy of attention. Mr. W. W. Baldwin has a very sympathetic sketch of southern life, - an old negro's story of the death of a son in battle. The piece has a touch of truth and feeling rare in our college papers. The only other prose article, which is by Mr. H. G. Bruce, is entitled The Confessions of Donald Grant. Mr. Bruce has given us a very strong and subtle study of some of the phenomena of the passion which men usually...
...worthy of men's eyes and hold men's hearts. Not one of us, therefore, who, if he be true and pure and natural, may not, though his life never should be written, be interesting and stimulating to his fellow men in some small circle as they touch his life." Who can fail to feel the truth of those few simple words and the encouragement they give us all, and especially the young, who are just beginning the battle of life to be "true" and "pure," to be themselves manly men, and so help their class-fellows and comrades...