Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...class foot-ball game on Jarvis field yesterday afternoon was a pleasure to watch. Both teams played remarkably good foot-ball, and the game was lost and won on its merits. In this it was a pleasing contrast to the game of Tuesday, for although there was some rough play, and some holding, yet both teams were on the whole very careful, and the only case of slugging which was noticeable was that for which Duffield was disqualified in the second half, where he lost his temper and struck Gardner. The play of neither team was gentle, to be sure...
...practice for the last few days, and consequently several times the signals had to be changed. This fault should be corrected if for no other reason than to save time. Then again at times several of the men would not enter into the play but just stand by and watch the other men do the interfering or tackle the opposing backs. There was also too much holding in the line and off side play. Harvard loosing the ball several times for these offences and once for interfering with the hands...
...editorial board of the Yale Record has adopted a watch charm in the shape of an owl with rings outspread, wearing a mortar-board cap on which are the words "Yale Record" in blue enamel. The charm is of gold and was made by Tiffany...
6tLOST. - Between the entrance to Holmes field and the Zoological Museum a ladies gold watch with small bar chain. The finder will be rewarded by leaving word at 12 Frisbie Place...
...Class Day have been marred by spectacles which border closely on the disgraceful. The extent to which the struggles for the flowers have been carried may be well enough when there is no one in the question but men, but to the crowd of ladies who are gathered to watch the sport the sight cannot help becoming now and then revolting. When a man's shirt is torn clean from his back, he is certainly not in a state, no matter what extenuating circumstances there may be, to be in the centre of that crowd of on-lookers. And there...