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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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This afternoon the Harvard nine meets Yale for the first time this season. The game with Columbia, disheartening as its effect has been, must act as an incentive to greater efforts than have yet been made. Harvard ought to win to-day, and with a proper spirit of confidence and presence of mind success can be gained. The record made by the Harvard nine of last year must not remain unparalleled in the list of our athletic victories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/8/1886 | See Source »

...Harvard boys pin all their hopes for the Inter-collegiate Championship on their ability to "bang" any pitcher in the college league. All their energies are bent towards perfecting themselves in that portion of the game. "Doing the net act" is the popular means to this end. They have a net about eight feet high, stretched across a portion of the ball field, and before this the entire nine stand and endeavor to "block" the curved balls that their fellow collegians put in to them. Many men can be found in college, outside the regular team, who have very good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/7/1886 | See Source »

...some of the subscribers have refused to take their copies, and that for this reason an assessment must be levied on the other members of the class to meet the expenses of printing. We think that it is a manifest injustice on the part of the delinquent subscribers to act thus, and we trust that they will no longer show a disposition to allow other people to pay their bills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/5/1886 | See Source »

April 23, 1886.EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Dear Sir I do not believe the annexed clipping from the CRIMSON of April 22. "Mr. Curtis of the Spirit of the Times will act as judge of walking in the Intercollegiate games," The reasons for my skepticism are as follows: 1, I have not been asked; 2, I should refuse if asked, 3, I never acted as judge in walking; 4, I never shall; 5, I shall not be at "Mott Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKEPTICISM IN NEW YORK. | 4/27/1886 | See Source »

...Curtis of the Spirit of the Times will act as judge of walking in the Inter-collegiate games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/22/1886 | See Source »

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