Word: greater
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...number of Harvard men, anxious to arouse a greater interest in foot ball among the preparatory schools in Boston and its vicinity and thus secure better candidates for the college team, have taken an important step toward this end. A committee consisting of J. H. Sears (chairman), A. P. Butler, F. C. Woodman, C. A. Porter, F. S. Fiske, and R. S. Hale (secretary) have donated a cup, to be called the Boston School football Challenge Cup. The conditions governing the cup provide that schools within fifteen miles of Boston, and such others as the committee may admit...
...will have become better acquainted with each other, and it will be easy to discover who is best fitted to fill each position. Not only will the class, by adopting this method, avoid the risk of having a wrong man to fill a captaincy, but also it will induce greater exertions on the part of all the men trying for the various teams...
...Camp. The Yale and Wesleyan elevens have now been in training for two weeks, but as the men were not in the best of condition for a long game, two halves of but half an hour each were played. The ball was kept in Wesleyan's territory during the greater part of the game. Wesleyan was forced to make two safety touchdowns, and the rest of Yale's points were scored on touchdowns by the following men: Wurtemburg (4), Corbin (3), Heffelefinger (1), Gill (4), Morrison (1), Rhodes (1). From these touchdowns, Morrison, half-back on last year's Exeter...
...fail, and should we do so we shall not be ashamed to acknowledge it. We have made the change at some sacrifice, since the extra column of reading matter on the front page deprives us of a whole column of valuable advertisements. It also calls for a much greater amount of work from the editors of the paper, and this, especially in the winter season, is no light matter. But nevertheless we have decided to make the change, believing it to be for the best, and trusting to the generosity and good will of the students and graduates to make...
...sides that the undergraduate department of Columbia is far behind the age. The other schools are managed so as to keep abreast of the times, and this system has made them highly successful. A few radical changes would raise a department which is now of little account into greater usefulness, otherwise it can never lift itself above its present state...