Word: farther
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gain the necessary five yards by the next rush, so the ball went to Harvard. It was passed to Fearing who ran around the end and gained twenty-five yards. Several short rushes followed. Upton then took the ball and carried it ahead ten yards. Frothingham rushed ten yards farther, but the ball was given to Yale for interference. Hamlin made a good run of twenty yards and some loose work by Harvard allowed Yale to gain ten yards more. Harvard then braced, and forced Yale to punt. Trafford caught Owsley's punt and had the ball down on Harvard...
...magazine professing to publish "the best literary work that is produced by students of the university." The regular graduate article, written by Mr. Francis C. Lowell, compares "Harvard and the Continental Universities." The author shows that while the German universities invite students to learn, but do not concern themselves farther, Harvard has very different functions. Harvard undertakes "the advancement of learning and sound morals alike." She has therefore "the full right to make and enforce such regulations as she believes profitable to good morals among her students...
...intercollegiate contests have ceased to have a purpose. It is to preclude the possibility of this danger that the present action has been taken; and to it we must look for whatever improvement is to come. It is to be regretted that the committee could not have gone even farther, and confined athletics simply to undergraduates, but this obviously could not be done, for it would be impossible to impugns the motives of graduates returning to college. The present rules therefore seem the wisest and best that could have been made under the circumstances...
Play began at half-past three Andover having the ball, and the lively work of the Phillips team completely dazed the freshmen. Stone began the game with a rush of twenty yards; Cochrane carried the ball fifteen yards farther towards Harvard's goal; Bliss ran around the end to the five yard line, and on the next scrimmage Stone found a hole made for him and slipped across the line three minutes after play began. The try for a goal was a failure, but Colt dropped on the ball and secured a second touchdown. The play during the next...
...apparent here at Harvard. In our work, moreover, we should strive to have some ideal; seek to cultivate a just independence of thought, and to go beyond what other men have learned. A university amasses human knowledge, stores it up and bids its students push a little farther into study...