Word: train
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...give a certain amount of influence, and I, for one, do not see why we should not use this as much as possible for our own good. To come to the point, a large number of us want to go to New York (at Thanksgiving, for example) within a train or two of each other. We buy our tickets, one by one, at the usual rate, instead of clubbing together and getting the lower rates which competing roads are always willing to grant to a large number. Many other colleges do this for their students, and, so long...
From this time on, Columbia played much better. Several good rushes were made on their side, and that of Train promised to amount to something; but he came to grief. Our men brought the ball steadily up the field, passing it to one another, and a touch-down was obtained, and from this a goal. The ball was now kept near the centre of the field, and the first three-quarters closed with three goals and seven touch-downs for us; for Columbia, nothing...
During the game Harvard obtained six goals and Columbia nothing. Brower, Conover, Hammond, McCosh, and Train did the best work for Columbia; and Bacon, Cushing, Harrington, Holmes, Littauer, and Thayer for Harvard. Our team was the same as that in the Princeton game, with the exception of Sheldon, '79, who took the place of Blanchard, M. S. The Columbia team was as follows...
Rushers: Pryor, Potts, Brower, Rhodes, Brinkerhoff, Train, and Lawrence. Half-Tends: Hammond, Burton, Conover, Randall, and McCosh. Tends: DeForest, Morgan, Ledoux...
...fact, the disagreeable weather of last week may be taken as a fair example of English weather. The success of the Oxford or Cambridge man is not owing so much to his constitution and climate, as to his pertinacity in carrying out whatever he undertakes. Men in England will train honestly for a month at least before the day of the sports for which they enter. They will give up smoking, drinking, and late hours, and will do every day what they know they must do in order to secure a place. Who is there at Harvard that ever trained...