Word: saying
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mean just what I say...
IMMEDIATELY after the Yale-Princeton game, there appeared an editorial in the New York Tribune on the subject of football. The tone of the article was against football in general, which is considered by the writer to be a "rude, not to say brutal" sport. Then the writer goes on to complain of the large number of men engaged in the game, and suggests "that reform is necessary in the direction proposed by some of the colleges, which is to restore the number of contestants on either side to eleven." This is on the ground that there would be more...
...work last year, not only in his capacity of a first-rate oarsman, but in his coaching, and in his readiness to lend his experience and time to whatever helped to raise the standard of rowing, cannot be too strongly emphasized; and it is hardly an exaggeration to say that few men have ever done more in a year to improve Harvard in this respect than...
...Very romantic!" I 'm sure you will say...
...want you to print this, like an old dear, because you 're so full of influence and bright ideas and cleverness and things, that everybody minds everything you say, at least the Faculty and the Bursar do. But I must n't chatter. There's that darling Professor Giggles calling me for Domestic Astronomy...