Word: warns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Accompanying the semi-annuals another affliction visits the college in the shape of those well-known vendors of Havana cigars. The methods of these vagabonds and imposters are familiar to most men, who need not be warned against their thieving deceptions, but there are doubtless a number of freshmen and others whom it may be well to warn. For the benefit of these we will say that if any picturesque looking foreigners who speak nothing but Espanol or French call upon you with a delightful tale of having just arrived in Boston from Havana on a ship with fine cigars...
...Thanksgiving game the Yale Eleven started to play their "bully" game; jumping on our half-backs after they had caught the ball, fouling the rushers and trying the intimidation scheme. It did not work. A few warnings from the referee effected something perhaps, but the pluck of some of our rushers effected more. A Princeton rusher, if fouled, would warn his opponent what to expect next time, and when "next time" came the latter was forcibly reminded that he was playing unfairly. In our rush line there happen to be some of the finest boxers in college. After the first...
...possible in the May meetings ; we have barely escaped the hot summer months, when even the most rigid athletes fall off in their exercise, and we have not enjoyed the long winter months spent in the gymnasium at the weights and on the track. Therefore we take occasion to warn any would-be competitor in the spring sports from discouragement at his failure or success this fall, when these hindrances have labored against him. What we expect now more than anything else is a manifestation of live interest in our athletics, which in the end goes a long way towards...
...Harvard ('86) correspondent of the Phillipian, says: "The thing which is the strangest to our 'freshman understanding' is the absolute freedom. After leaving Andover we hardly know what to do with ourselves, unless we hear the quarter of eight bell strike, to warn us to our rooms. Another change which, though strange, is pleasant, is the step from Andover clubs or boarding-houses to the magnificent dining-hall at 'Memorial.' I say 'magnificent,' begging all pardon for speaking differently from Clarence Cook in his article published in the North American Review...
...Warn...