Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...baseball, the attempt is being made to get two games this spring with the Princeton freshmen. The attempt, we hope, will meet with success. The freshman nine has always been a most valuable means of developing material for the University team, and the latter would be sure to suffer if the ball players in Ninety-eight were discouraged at the beginning of their career. This point of view, however, makes too little of the disappointment to the freshmen themselves. The records made against Yale are always an important feature in the athletic history of a class, and it is hard...
...thought, however, that they will go so far as to deprive the classes of any athletic privileges, the general impression being that a denial of the privilege of holding a sophomore german in 1896 will be the only penalty which the classes will be made to suffer...
...desire on the part of the so-called conservatives of the Yale Faculty is to reduce the proportions of athletics by cutting off all freshman contests. The opportunity for pushing such a plan is unexpectedly offered by the general desire of the Faculty to make the present freshmen suffer for their sins. If such a change were instituted as a permanent feature of Yale athletics, the effect would be far-reaching. Things have not come to such a pass yet, and they are not expected...
Baseball too would probably suffer by the change, though perhaps not to such an extent. The games could hardly seem the same, for, as almost every one noticed during the football season, Soldiers Field lacks all the charm which Holmes Field gains from its nearness to the college buildings...
...real nuisance. No one objects to an occasional remark or query, but it is most irritating to an alcove full of readers to have two men carry on a conversation of several minutes duration. Many men are guilty of the offense from mere thoughtlessness and generally have to suffer once or twice themselves before they realize what an annoyance they cause...