Word: gallant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...football season is over, and Yale has won the championship, defeating Harvard in the game Thursday in New York. But let no one think that such a defeat brought disgrace with it. Our team is deserving of the highest honor for the gallant fight they made. Every inch of ground was stubbornly contested. Our eleven played a magnificent up-hill game from the start, and too much praise cannot be showered upon the men who represented our college. In fact we have made an up-hill fight the whole season. Our captain, beginning with comparatively new material, was obliged...
...enthusiasm which is so prevalent in college, and the expectations for success which are now so high in everybody's mind, ought not to slacken merely because the team we are to play is known not to be very strong. Go out, every man, and cheer our gallant players, and show them what confidence you have in the work they will do against our most formidable adversaries in New York on Thanksging...
Great excitement was occasioned in the yard last night by the little game of "Push, gently Push," played by the sub-juniors and freshman. Much gore was spilled, one freshman having received a bloody-nose in the fray. He was rescued and carried from the field by his gallant nurse, who administered pap to him in small doses. The latest advices say he is slowly recovering and his faithful nurse, Mrs. Maginnis is the heroine of the hour...
...date have been collected, and to urge upon the sophomores to come forward and pay up the remainder as soon as possible. If the whole amount subscribed is paid, it will enable the management to procure very handsome cups which will serve as substantial memorials of the gallant acts of Eighty-nine. We trust that this last appeal may have its effect on the stony hearts of those sophomores whose signatures have not yet had the magic word "Paid" placed after them in the blue-book at Leavitt & Peirce...
...Gallant Company Carm. Yalen...