Word: altering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -At the foot ball meeting held last evening, a committee of five gentlemen was appointed to alter the present rules of foot ball, in such a manner as to make the game less dangerous and brutal. I would like, through your columns, to make a suggestion as to these changes...
Meanwhile the Yale and Princeton papers, in a very childish and unreasonable manner, assure their readers that the championship has been virtually won by their respective colleges. No amount of petty discussion and puerile quibbling, however, will alter the decisions of the referee and of the convention in declaring that there is no championship...
...cannot give their men to understand that they have got to do as they are told, and play as they are told, at the risk of not getting on the team,-as well as the foot ball powers of Yale or Princeton, a Yale or Princeton eleven will complete alter their method of play in a single year (and that means nothing in the world but coaching), whereas, our men seem to think that if they play hard, and keep in training, they have done duty, and no one has a right to find fault. They may have been told...
...just this. A man might. knock a tennis ball about all day, even have a net to knock it over, and yet not bet much, if any real good for his trouble, but put another man on the other side of the net, and you see how "circumstances alter cases." Mental interest and excitement combined with the necessary physical exertion, double, nay triple the beneficial results of the game of tennis. The idea; not only that you are exercising, but also that you have a game to win makes all the difference in the world. In other words, physical exercise...
...safe to assert that it would be difficult to find a more uproarious place at night than the environs of Harvard, and especially of Harvard square. The noise and clamor continue until alter midnight. It is a mixture of noises compounded of passing bands, cheering, yells and street car bells. There is at least one sufferer who has found scarcely any sleep, or opportunity or mood for study for the last two weeks. Cambridge outrivals some of the worst cities of the west. This is an unfortunate fact, especially after what has been heard of Eastern culture and refinement...