Word: things
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...poet was next introduced, Benjamin A. Gould, Jr., '91. The poem was always happy and often brilliantly clever as it hit off the prowess and familiar characteristics of the men we have watched with such deep interest that we have grown to feel the reality of that often hypothetical thing, college brotherhood. From Lake to Cumnock, he went through the list and ended by declaring "There's no sweeter music than Twelve...
...cries for Cumnock brought the hero of the occasion to his feet. His talk was characteristically to the point. "Last year we were all here and only wanted one thing, victory. This year nothing is lacking. We have come from third place to first. Cliques. societies, and clubs have been disfegarded and we have put a representative Harvard eleven in the field. It has won, but our black board did as much to spoil Yale's round-the-end play as practice on Jarvis and in the gymnasium...
...least when we heard that the Harvard men had given up the trip, for it was no part of the intention of those who thought of going to play at New York, to set themselves up as the Harvard eleven; when this name was forced upon them, the only thing for them to do was to refuse to have anything to do with the affair...
...that they have greatly delighted his relatives and friends. It also intimates that there is a fine vein of humor running through some of the sketches. The reader who wishes to be fully in touch with the book must be sure not to omit the preface. The most humorous thing to one who had not been prepared for the wit of the book by its introduction would probably be the novelty of the words and rhetoric...
...being a similar accident, in my opinion. The seats near the centre of the Harvard side, to the north, where I was, got swaying so badly near the end of the game that everybody left the upper rows. It would have taken very little more to bring the whole thing down-I think another touch-down for Harvard would have done it. The Harvard foot ball management ought to make it their business, if it is not their business already, to see that there shall be no such criminal carelessness in putting up the seats in future...