Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ideas. They object to a scrimmage, first, because football clothes, which are dirty and offensive, are necessarily worn in the presence of refined ladies; second, because if football clothes were not worn, such weaker garments as were used would be stripped off; third, because the scrimmage has become a fight in which to pay off old scores instead of a good-natured scramble; fourth, because with any form of scrimmage, even such as we proposed with every day clothes on and with lowered flowers, there would necessarily be roughness on account of the present large numbers in the class...
...public games of the football team. In neither case are the wearers of the clothes so near the spectators that the clothes need be "offensive." There has been unfortunately some small ground for the objection that the scrimmage has become, to use the extreme language of the communication, a "fight in which to pay off old scores instead of a good-natured scramble." Whatever trouble there may have been in past years has been caused by placing the flowers so high that it was necessary for groups of men to combine and struggle with other combinations in order...
...choir sang the following selections: "Fight the good fight," N. W. Parker; "Whoso dwelleth," Martin; and "He shall come down," Tours...
...there has been a corresponding improvement in the general work of the eleven during the last few days. Sheldon '98S. has recovered sufficiently from his illness to resume his work at the Field. His weight is greatly needed at guard and he will probably give Murray a hard fight for that position. Chamberlain is showing up well at centre, although he is the lightest man Yale has had for some time at that position. Hazen has been ill for the last few days and his place at end has been taken by Connor...
...agreed in believing that serious evils exist in the undergraduate social life. One part of a class, even in its fourth year in the University, does not know nor care about the other half. "Cliques" and "sets" do exist; at every election of Class Day Officers there is a fight between "society" and "non-society" men; and there is an atmosphere of false formality and false dignity which old graduates tell us is not to be found in the outside world...