Word: account
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is a good wood-cut of Chamberlain, '86, in the New York Clipper, with a short account of his life and the records he has made with the shot and hammer...
Hight, '89, has been obliged to leave college on account of illness arising from overtraining on his class tug-of-war team and crew. Of course he will be now unable to pull on the tug-of-war, and there is even some fear that he will not be able to row on the crew...
...Harvard Herald has again distinguished itself. The Harvard Athletic Association had its first winter meeting yesterday afternoon, and in eight minutes from the close of the "tug-of-war," The Herald was on the street with a full account of the entire proceedings. Sixty minutes later The Echo, true to its name, echoed the report of its sharper and smarter contemporary. - Boston Herald...
...August, 1869, the Times in its account of the Harvard-Oxford race, spoke of the "Ah! Ah!-Ah!" of the American college men. A letter to the Nation comments on this, and attacks the college for its abandonment of the "fine old lung" cheer (Hurrah), and its adoption of this "mouth-cheer, without either force or dignity." This brings out better several answers in strong support of our present cheer. The arguments or impressions of the writers are hardly interesting, except from what they say of the origin of the "Rah!" cheer, as follows: "In 1864 the college turned...
Wright, '87, and Lund, '88, have been unable to train with the Mott Haven team for some days on account of sickness...