Word: account
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIRS: Some slight correction should be made in the account given by you yesterday of the new boat house...
...live with their husbands at the age of thirteen or fourteen. In case the husband dies, the wife remains with her father-in-law, and is never reduced to beggary. The widow cannot marry again for she is thought to have lost her husband on account of some former sin, which must be expiated. These customs on the whole produce happy unions, and devoted families. The constant atmosphere of high moral thought also give the Indians gravity of manner and dignity...
...does the best individual work on the team. The cup is to be awarded on one week's playing, the first week after the team goes to training table, and in accordance with a scheme devised by Mr. W. C. Camp, '80, which will take into account, blocking, breaking through, tackling, kicking...
...game with Yale which was postponed from the 8th on account of rain will in all probability be played on Thursday, June 20, the date offered by the management of the Yale nine. Captain Willard has telegraphed that he will accept the 20th, so that unless some unforeseen contingencies arrive to prevent, the game will be played here next Thursday...
Yesterday the members of the '85 'varsity gave this year's 'varsity valuable aid. Although on account of lack of practice, the '85 team was easily beaten, the listless playing of the 'varsity was very noticeable, and was commented on by the graduate team, If the nine expects to win even one of the three games with Yale, it must do much better work than was done yesterday...