Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this inning Larkin and McNair made more long kicks, which were of great service; Ballard and Bryan distinguished themselves particularly, though all Princeton's rushers were very good at tackling, and played well together. Our kicks were very feeble compared with those of Princeton, but those of our men who could kick should have done so, instead of trying to run through so many rushers; our men, too, need to be quicker, as they lost several opportunities by lagging...
...several college papers and public periodicals have misconstrued the action taken by Harvard with reference to sending a crew to England, and have placed the college in a false light, it may be well to state the position Captain Bancroft has taken...
...very unfortunate that the weather this week has prevented foot-ball practice in the field, as the result of the match with Princeton last Saturday showed the weak points in our team, and proved decidedly that men cannot play well together in a game if they have not been faithful in their practice-work before the match. There are a great many details in passing, and tricks in dodging, which the Princeton men have mastered, and which we trust our men have now learned. The match to-morrow will be well worth seeing; and we can only hope that...
...Yale Courant does well to call its full-page picture College Riff-Raff. For surely, the two collegiates represented are riff-raff, the man who was so familiar with such specimens as to be able to portray them must be riff-raff, and the editor who accepted the cartoon, riff-raff also...
...matter of scholarships, Harvard would do well to imitate Oxford. All of these - more than 700 in number and bringing in an aggregate of pound 60,000 annually - are bestowed for knowledge alone, and are sought as earnestly by the sons of the wealthy as by the poor. They average about pound 65 a year. This is one example of the determination at Oxford to draw no line between rich and poor. It has its swells and its snobs, but whatever they may import in that way is absolutely unrecognized by university and college law and administration...