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Word: aways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gaining about twenty-five yards, By a succession of short runs the ball was forced right down to Wesleyan's goal, Fletcher even getting it to the goal-post; but he could not quite get over the line, and four downs gave Wesleyan the ball. Wesleyan got the ball away from this dangerous place by a short run, and before anything more could be done, time was called, with the score standing 12 to 0 in Harvard's favor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 11/7/1886 | See Source »

This race was not very exciting, as Taylor rowed right away from his competitors, and won easily. Sterne, who came in second, rowed a very plucky race, but showed want of practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 250th Anniversary. | 11/7/1886 | See Source »

...word, crew No. 4 got much the best of the start, and pulled away, followed by No. 2, No. 1, and No. 3 respectively. As they passed the boat-house No. 4 was still leading, closely followed by No. 3 and No. 2. The efforts of the two lost crews, however, were of no avail, and No. 4 crossed the line ahead with No. 3 second...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 250th Anniversary. | 11/7/1886 | See Source »

...grain which had been sold to him. This Philip Rogers was very likely the kinsman of the fair Katharine Rogers, whom Shakespeare might have seen before the altar in the parish church of Stratford, one morning in 1605, when her father, a substantial burgher of the town, gave her away to young Robert Harvard, of Southwark. Who knows but that the poet, just then at work upon his Lear, may have stood in the crowd of friends about that altar and have heard the sweet voice of Katharine Rogers repeat her vows; who knows but, on his return...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Gift of the Old Cambridge to the New. | 11/7/1886 | See Source »

...Boston Globe intends to keep up its reputation of giving, with the largest staff of Harvard graduates in America, more readable Harvard news than any other paper. It will be the paper that students will buy in large quantities to send away. On each day the Globe will contain full accounts of the exercises of the day before, with suitable illustrations. The literary exercises, both of graduates and undergraduates, will be fully reported by expert shorthand writers, including speeches at the alumni dinner. On Sunday morning, many columns of the Sunday Globe will be given to portraying the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Boston Globe and the Celebration. | 11/6/1886 | See Source »

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