Word: backed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...held yesterday afternoon. The hares, R. Endicott, '90 and J. D. Gorman '90 left the Gymnasium at 3.38 and laid the trail out Garden street to Fresh Pond; from there to the Payson estate at Watertown; thence to Arlington Heights, and from there back to Cambridge by way of Porter's Station. The hares made the run, a distance of about nine miles in one hour and seventeen minutes...
...popular literature or popular epics, as they are sometimes called, go back to the songs of the people. In fact these are their history. The "Nibelungen Leid" and "Gotterdammerung," the principal poems are based on popular songs. The "Nibelungen" contains thirty-eight adventures corresponding to cantos, arranged in 2000 stanzes or verses. Each verse is divided into two parts, the second part being one accent longer than the first...
...meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Intercollegiate Foot Ball Association was held yesterday morning in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, Mr. Richards of Yale in the chair. The meeting was called by Harvard for an oral examination of Ames, Princeton's full-back, and Mr. Leeds, Harvard's delegate, proceeded at once to read evidence against Ames. Princeton objected on a point of order as the affidavit had been questioned before it had been received. The chair sustained Mr. Leeds, but was overruled by Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and Wesleyan, the delegate from the latter college taking...
Harvey, of Yale, who was injured the first day of the season is now playing half-back on the Yale eleven...
Several new buildings are now in process of erection. The electrical building, which is almost finished, is situated in the corner of the President's grounds facing the public road. The new dormitory, Brown hall, is going up rapidly. Its site is on the knoll just beyond Edwards, and back of the Art school...