Word: backed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Saturday the Freshman Eleven played a game of foot-ball at Andover, against a team from Phillips Academy. During the first three-quarters Phillips had somewhat the advantage, though the Freshman at one time almost succeeded in getting a goal, the ball striking against the cross-piece and bounding back. In the second three-quarters '81 in their turn pressed their opponents; but nothing was gained, and the game ended in a draw. The best players were Eton and Nickerson of the Phillips, and Upham, Morse, and Clark of the Freshman Team. A supper was given to the Freshmen...
ARRANGEMENTS have been made with the N. Y. and B. R. R. whereby the foot-ball team and those students who desire to see the games with Columbia and Princeton are to be taken to New York and back at reduced rates. Mr. Barlow, the treasurer of the team, will furnish full particulars at No. 2 Beck...
SOME fate, unpropitious to the West End, seems to attend the placing of statues in Boston. Some one has already pointed out the bad taste displayed in putting Edward Everett in the Public Garden with his back to Beacon Street. George Washington has turned his steed from Beacon Hill, and is riding toward Natick. Even the Good Samaritan has "passed by on the other side"; and now the Genius of America on the top of the Monument has turned her back on that high-toned part of the city, and is facing that benighted region known as the South...
...said he, "as I open the door, rush in, I'll back...
...UNTO him that hath shall be given" is a proverb of worldly, as well as heavenly, wisdom. There is a building belonging to the College, which is provided with two fire-escapes on the back, and iron balconies which can easily be connected on the front. Why Holyoke, being so well provided, should now have a new iron staircase, while the other College buildings have no protection, is an insoluble conundrum. Holyoke is a particularly dangerous building in case of fire, because of the number of "wells" which it contains. But Weld and Matthews both have elevator "wells," up which...