Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doing now. This must stop at once. The team has been literally loafing,, and seems afraid to soil its new uniforms; they are dirty now, at any rate, and perhaps the play will improve in consequence. Ninety doesn't seem to realize that she has a game with Yale ahead of her at that, and only about three weeks distant, too. They urge in their defence, "Yes, but Sears and Harding will play in the Yale game." True, little friends, but one end-rush does not make a victory any more than the proverbial swallow makes a summer; you must...
...have any good things we are willing to share them. Now why is not this feeling reciprocated? We have punches in the beginning of the year, why are none ever given to us? Why are we treated as if we were children, while those only a year or two ahead of us are men? A satisfactory answer to these questions would greatly oblige...
...Should the hares reach home ahead of the hounds by a greater amount of time than that agreed upon at the start, they shall receive prizes, and the first hound in shall also receive a prize; should the difference of time be less than that agreed upon at the start, the first two hounds shall receive prizes; or any hound catching a hare shall receive a prize...
...weather was perfect, and the run was most enjoyable, as most slow hunts are. It was a pity that the scent was scattered, but the fault is not wholly to be laid to the hares, for several times the paper was gathered up by interested "muckers" and scattered ahead by them in order to mislead the hounds...
...Matthews at 3.45, and seven minutes later the hounds will start with Webster, '87, as master. The hares will lay a trail for fifty minutes, and then drop their bags and break for the finish at the gymnasium. The hounds will win unless the hares come in fifteen minutes ahead. If the hares win, both get cups; also the first hound; otherwise the two first hounds win cups...