Word: watching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...keeping it as much between his feet as possible. To see a skilled player do this at top speed, winding in and out among his opponents, with the ball never more than a foot or two away from him, is a pretty sight, and it is prettier still to watch him "running it down the line" with all the players crowding round him on the watch for a "rouge;" as an enthusiastic Etonian has been heard to observe, "it is the poetry of football!" A "rouge" is won when the ball passes behind the goal lines, but not through...
...considered any bar to the active enjoyment of the game. Among the ranks of the "Old Etonians," and of other Clubs similarly constituted, may be seen players who get over the ground with an agility, and charge their opponents with a hardihood, perfectly astounding for their years. To watch some of these veterans limping out of a furious "maul," or rolling on the muddy turf, would give a stranger, no doubt, a high opinion of the vivacity and pluck of our countrymen ; but to one of philosophical bent-such a one, for example, as Mr. Max O'Rell...
Students in other colleges are continually complaining because they are treated more as school-boys than as college men. Monitors are appointed to watch theeir deportment in recitation, all such methods are resorted to which belong only to a preparatory school. Harvard, we are glad to say, is almost totally free from any such childish methods of discipline. Still it is to be regretted that so many of our instructors are obliged to ask for better attention and less disturbance in the recitation rooms. It is certainly rude for any student to read or converse during a recitation or lecture...
...Freshmen come up an attempt is made to dislodge them. At first '88 seems to have the advantage, for she has rushed up against a fence which creaks and groans and finally gives way, sending head over heels several Juniors who had taken a position there to watch the fight. '87 and '88 are thrown into a promiscuous heap, from which they gradually extricate themselves, and once more rush at each other. This time it is decisive. The Sophomores rush the Freshmen off the sidewalk and retain possession of it. Now a number of single combats takes place in almost...
...desires of officiating chaperon. Thus one constantly hears fought out, with an energy worthy of a higher subject, such questions as the relative merits of coffee-pots, or the varied advantages of Keiller's as opposed to Cairn's marmalade; in such crises as these it is amusing to watch the face of the obsequious shop-walker, as he tries his utmost to conciliate the contending parties by agreeing first with the one, then with the other. Fortunate, indeed, is the Freshman who has a brother or cousin .of a year or two's standing, to make all his purchases...