Word: used
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Medical School will also have a like standing after the year 1900, making four graduate departments in the University. The need of one or two furnished dormitories and a dining hall for the use of the medical students is again urged...
...these bodies will declare with practical unanimity against the total abolition of the scrimmage. Even if fastidiousness is not encouraged too much at Harvard today, I think most of us feel that the display of wholesome sentiment is encouraged too little. The Corporation, I am sure, will not use their authority to ride rough-shod over the wishes of the vast majority of those most concerned in this matter. They will not destroy that which we regard as an institution, without having previously determined by an accurate vote that they have convinced a fair sized minority of us that...
...reasons for opposing the abolishment of the "scrimmage" are many. Its use by many decades of Harvard classes and the many pleasant associations which have grown up with its development have established it as a custom dear to thousands of graduates and to almost the whole undergraduate body,- a custom which should not be ended unless objections which cannot be met are shown. If such objections are shown, however, mere sentimental reasons should not prolong its existence...
...when worn in the presence of ladies at public games of the football team. In neither case are the wearers of the clothes so near the spectators that the clothes need be "offensive." There has been unfortunately some small ground for the objection that the scrimmage has become, to use the extreme language of the communication, a "fight in which to pay off old scores instead of a good-natured scramble." Whatever trouble there may have been in past years has been caused by placing the flowers so high that it was necessary for groups of men to combine...
...eights form the first squad. The men are still learning the rudiments of the stroke and do not use the slides. The order yesterday was about as usual, the cutting down being effected by dropping an eight from the second squad. The work of the men was not particularly good and the time was ragged...