Word: sliding
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...they are inefficient, and Harvard has its vines and roof-balcony; but the only effective work which these appurtenances can accomplish is to cause the imprisoned undergraduate to spend valuable lecture hours in wondering whether it would be better in case of fire, to trust to the firemen or slide down a rain pipe...
...pleasures and outside activities, in order to apply himself in some measure to his neglected text-books and tutoring schools. For inside of two weeks there must be injected into his world-weary brain all the knowledge which for the last three months he has allowed to slide joyfully from his thoughts. What is worse, failure to do this will result in the outlawry of probation, and all the shocks that undergraduates are heir...
During the eighties and nineties they passed rules requiring pushing duels between opposing linesmen to determine whether the offence could provide a human slide on which to project the man with the ball for 1 and 67-100 yards on each down; or whether on the other hand the defence could upset this human slide and turn it into a human wall against which the alleged runner would be hurled in vain by his team-mates. The result of the plays would have been exactly the same if the runner was on wheels...