Word: towards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hoped that there is some truth in the rumor that comes from New Haven to the effect that Yale will play no more football games in New York, for the attitude of the New York public toward college football is not calculated to have a good influence on the sport. Unfortunately it has been more or less true that one great reason why games have been played there in the past is that they are more successful financially than when played in smaller towns. Quick to appreciate this, New York people have come to regard a big college game like...
Pierre Johnson Gulick '97, of Springfield, Mass., committed suicide at his room in Divinity Hall early yesterday morning. The news of the sad event spread rapidly through the University toward noon yesterday and was a terrible shock to all who knew...
...showed the effect of liberal thought upon the two great divisions of English Theologists; the Anglican Church, and the Non-Conformists. He said that the liberal movement had tended toward a federation of these two great bodies, and that it might in time bring about the disestablishment of the Anglican Church, as it had already done with the Irish Church, and proposed to do with the established Church of Wales. The movement had extended in two directions, he said, towards criticism of dogmas, and criticism of Scripture. One great thing which the new line of thought accomplished was to show...
This shows Harvard with a total of 326 points to her opponents' 16, while Yale, in a series containing three more games, has made 449 points to her opponents' 9. The difference is partly explained by the fact that Yale toward the end of the season played three games with weak teams, in which she was able to roll up large scores. Both sides have been scored against twice, but no team has scored against both Harvard and Yale. Last year in eleven games Harvard's total was 392 to her opponents' 5, and Yale's 357 in eight games...
...human nature, let alone athletics, knows that it is at this moment that whip and spur are needed. A stirring cheer may change the result of the game. We honestly believe that half-hearted support of athletic teams on the field may do quite as much as defeats toward giving the Harvard man the reputation of being a quitter...