Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...youngest and greenest representatives, "Is it reasonable to expect that the New London managers, after receiving this abuse for an accident for which they were perfectly blameless, should take upon their shoulders the burden of providing for Freshmen crews, whose presence upon the Thames would add another element to the already sufficiently difficult task of conducting without accident the annual Harvard-Yale race...
...such as may be corrected next year if attended to early in the season. The fact that the Yale men outweighed us, man for man, in almost every case, and yet were unable to break through our line, seems to prove that size is not an absolutely necessary element in the composition of the Team. Our rushers were as good as, if not better than, any that Harvard has ever sent into the field, and, although improvement in catching the ball might have added to the efficacy of the back players, they, too, made a very good showing. The Team...
...insult an instructor who may have displeased some portion of the men in his elective. Both the matter and the spirit of the article in question call for the severest reproof from all who have any desire that our College journalism shall at least be free from the element of vulgarity...
...over the crowd is so large that one cannot move about the Yard with any comfort. The aim of the Committee is to distribute the Yard-tickets among the class, and if all are careful as to whom they give them, next Class Day will be free from an element heretofore too conspicuous. All persons found in the Yard after five o'clock without tickets will be removed by the police...
...which they are members; that, as is implied by their membership of that society, they were the highest scholars of the Senior and Junior classes; that their names would be recognized at once by anybody familiar with the roll of students as representing the most studious and orderly element of the College, and that they are known to me - by reputation in all cases, and in most by personal acquaintance also - to be gentlemen, whose principles, self-respect, and steadiness of conduct, and whose word may be relied upon with absolute confidence...