Word: pride
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...Snodkins is an '85 man is very soon made evident. A large '85 is upon his door, made as first appears from postal cards. Closer inspection shows the supposed cards to be suspicious somethings from the Dean's office, that proverbial "U 5." Snodkins points to these with the pride of an old soldier who shows his empty sleeve and tails of the battles he has been through. Our attention is next called to a strange device over the fire-place-a row of four cards, the ace of hearts, eight of clubs, 8 to spades and five of diamonds...
...unfavorable weather with which our foot ball teams are now favored brings to mind the fall of '82, when we met with a similar hindrance from a somewhat too previous snow storm. Many a junior recalls with pride the alacrity with which be, then a mere freshman, stepped forward and lent his and to the good work of relieving Holmes Field of its unwelcome coverlet. Many a junior, too, will remember the sudden increase in alacrity with which he surrendered his shovel to some new comer and silently became absent from the cold field after a mauvaise quarts' hear...
...North, and met with a most cordial reception from their antagonists. The team from Cambridge succeeded in defeating the Magill University eleven, and then scored another hard-earned victory over the All Canada picked team. This was a most gratifying record, and it would be remembered with the more pride had not the work of that season been spoiled by one most unfortunate event; our team was beaten by Yale that fall, and has been beaten by Yale every year since. Two years ago the Magill University team played a match on Holmes Field, again meeting with disaster...
...pride go before a fall. There will doubtless be tougher adversaries to meet before the season has closed. Exeter has a fine eleven this season and then there is the freshman Yale game, for which this previous work is all preparatory. The Yale men have the advantage of playing a dropped '87 man, who was one of the strongest players on the eleven of last year, their men are working hard and the material seems from all reports to be good. In a game against the Yale University eleven the freshmen held them down to a score of only...
...harsh tile they gave to the Andover foot ball field. From this it will be seen that Eighty-Eight has no easy task before her, and that, while only the sharpest of work can win a victory for the class, yet that victory will be one to remember with pride, if it be attained. A word now to the freshmen. No surer way to help your team to success can be found than the support afforded by the presence of a large number of your class. It is an easy and comparatively inexpensive undertaking to run up to Andover...