Word: swallowing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...himself very scarce. The sophs could not approach through the barricade on the front seats. They tried to get in at the rear and at the side doors of the stage, but they met freshmen at every point. The freshmen were too numerous, and the sophomores were forced to swallow their indignation and endure their defeat like men. Then the freshmen, at the conclusion of the performance, marched up Chapel street 200 strong, defying the Sheff. juniors and Academy sophomores. But the matter will not end here. The sophomores and the Sheff. juniors will find some way, they declare...
These passed on before the "Washington Corps" - about a dozen men in blue swallow-tail coats and white small-clothes, and hose. They were supposed to represent a student organization of that name existing here in the early part of this century...
...game with Yale ahead of her at that, and only about three weeks distant, too. They urge in their defence, "Yes, but Sears and Harding will play in the Yale game." True, little friends, but one end-rush does not make a victory any more than the proverbial swallow makes a summer; you must train your eleven to play foot-ball and not puss-in the-corner; your rushers must run with the ball and not let the half-backs do all the work; or, if they want the half-backs to score, they must block like...
Carlyle wrote, "to-day is not yesterday." Probably the great philosopher conceived the gorgeously beautiful original thought, while sitting on the bed in the morning, yawning as though trying to swallow the room, and feeling his head to see if it was small enough...
...appearance of our athletic friends. We were surprised at the smile of pride that covered the face of our friend as he cried, "Ah, the Eleven!" He told us that the foot-ball interests of Tufts were "screaming," as he said, and that they bade fair to swallow up the other sports in the same manner as they had been themselves swallowed at our own college. Our friend spoke of the curriculum of Tufts as excellent, and the teaching thorough. He did not say, however, that the students ate in the chapel or that some of the professors roomed...