Word: staid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first number of the new volume of the Advocate comes out to-day. The paper has passed into the hands of the '89 editors and they are at least progressive, if one may judge from the changes which have been made. The quiet, staid Advocate has blossomed out with a crimson title-page, and the innovation is a very happy one. The lines around the pages and between the columns have been taken out, and the articles end across the page instead of filling up one whole column and a fraction of the other. The verses are honored with...
...audience of eighteen thousand people witness a most magnificent contest between our two universities, but also, that audience and the public press had nothing but words of praise for the game itself. Such an event could not but greatly conciliate the college faculties, and many even of our most staid New England parents forgot the loss of the old-fashioned home Thanksgiving in the enthusiasm of their boys over the match...
...heavy clouds of yesterday afternoon served to frighten away all but a mere handful of spectators from the second game between the Beacons and the 'Varsity nine. Those who braved the chances of catching a wetting wished that they had staid at home, for the game, after dragging along through nine tedious innings, resulted in a defeat for the home team...
...goal and only goal for Harvard. After this goal the visitors went to work in a very business-like way and in less than four minutes had tied the score, Joyce securing the goal. After the ball was started again it went to the neighborhood of our goals and staid there. A second goal for the South Bostons was thrown by Cooper nine minutes before the close of the first half...
...staid conservatism of Yale underwent a convulsion some two weeks ago quite startling in its extent, whose effects happily have not yet entirely disappeared. This commotion which stirred college sentiment so deeply and attracted quite general notice from the press of the country, was occasioned by an editorial in the Courant protesting in earnest language against the system in vogue at the Sabbath services. The genuine truth of its ideas combined with their strong expression, are what earned for the article its universal attention and approbation. There is a rumor - so indefinite as to almost fail of being a rumor...