Word: backed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first set Wrenn chose the serve, while Tallant and Lee had the sun on their backs. The first two games went to Lockett and Wrenn, Tallant playing often into the net. The third game went to Tallant and Lee through placing by Tallant and good back-hand strokes by Lee. Tallant and Lee won the forth and fifth, while the sixth and seventh went to Lockett and Wrenn, all four games being very poor. Locket won the eighth game by some brilliant strokes, lobbing well. Tallant and Lee then took a brace and won the next four games by good...
...Bicycle club held its first hare and hound run yesterday afternoon. The hares, Spencer, '90, and Holmes, '92 left the gymnasium at 4.20 and laid the trail through Mount Auburn, Brighton, Allston, Longwood to Back Bay Park, where they indicated the "break." The hounds, fifteen in number, led by Burrow '91 followed seven minutes later, but on account of darkness were unable to keep the scent and returned at will. The hares, however, arrived at 5.30 after a ride of thirteen miles...
...look, said he, back upon the life of the ancient Venetians and Florentines in the times of their great progress in art we are apt to think of their life as particularly bright; perhaps even more so than our own. But they were greatly influenced by the Greeks and if we examine all art we find it more or less dependent upon the Greeks. The great features of the Greeks were simplicity, truth and beauty. And to this they added the ability to express the inward thought in visible form. We have more or less lost the spirit...
...Varsity-Rushers: Cumnock, Upton, Cranston, Tilton (centre), Fitzhugh, Blanchard, Campbell; quarter-back, Dean; halfbacks, Moen, Dennison; fullback, Trafford...
Ninety-two-Rushers: McDonald, Rantoul. Thomas, Pinkham (centre), Steedman, Allen, Chase, quarter-back, Neff; half backs, Henry, White; fullback, Forbes...