Word: vain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Will you kindly call attention through your columns to the immediate need of new lockers in the gymnasium. Over 50 applicants have waited long in vain for them, although it was promised long ago that they should be built...
...impossible to get the necessary books, what more reasonable request can be made than that some other method of study should be recommended by the instructor? It is an undoubted fact, too, that many hours of valuable time are wasted every day by members of the course in the vain hunt for books, which other members of the course are reading in some secluded nook in the library. We do not mean to underrate the admirable system of references which Dr. Hart has compiled with such care. They are invaluable to the students of American history, and nowhere can such...
...freshmen. On the steps of University cheers were given for the eleven, individual players, the classes, and finally for Harvard. Then a rush was made for Jarvis field, the scene of the victory, and a good-sized bonfire was soon in progress where lately the Yale rushers were in vain attempting to keep the ball away from their goal-posts...
...Bull have a punting contest which is ended by the ball going fair, when Yale gets it. Three trials gain no ground for Yale, and Morrison punts to Holden, who kicks fair, and Harvard gets the ball. A second time Holden kicks fair and Yale gets it. Yale in vain tries to get the ball nearer our line and the fourth time Watkinson tries for a goal from the field, but fails. Beecher gets the ball from Holden's kick, and Holden's ankle is hurt; Sears takes his place. Watkinson fumbles the ball and goes down in a heap...
...Yale rush-line played a magnificent game. Every man knew what he had to do, and did it well. They made good holes and protected the runner in great shape. It was in vain that our rushers and backs would try to get through the line with the ball. Even when they did find what looked like a hole a Yale rusher was sure to come round from the further end and stop the runner before he got to the backs. In fact their backs did very little tackling and are evidently not so good as the rush-line. Watkinson...