Word: backed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Heffelfinger, the Exeter half back was injured in the game here last Wednesday so severely that he will be unable to play for four weeks...
...candidates for quarter back are Dolworth, '91, 143 bounds, Blossom, '91, 137 pounds, and Pierer, 138 pounds. H. Gildersleeve, 159 pounds, Hewlett, 160 pounds, Martin, 155 pounds, and O'Connor, 159 pounds, are trying for half and full backs...
Professor Cilley of Exeter Academy has gone to Carlsbad, Germany for his health and probably will not be back until next spring...
...following men will compose the 'varsity eleven in this afternoon's game with Stevens; rushers, (end); Hutchinson, Newell, Cranston, Kelton (centre) Campbell or Stickney, Upton, Cumnock; quarter-back, Dean; halfbacks, Curtis or Greenough, Lee or Bowman; full back, Trafford or Saxe; subs, Crosby, Goodwin, House, Wrenn, Curtis. The second eleven which plays at Exeter willbe made up as follows: rushers, Hill, Cummings, Blanchard, Morse, Fitzhugh, Rodgers, Davenport,; quarter back, Hallowell; half-backs, W. Crane and Moen; full-back, Johnson; subs, Dodge and Tilton...
...lecturer spoke as foilows: The Mahabharata, the grandest poem in Indian literature, dates back about 2000 years. It is a mere jumble of episodes, some tedious, some ridiculous, and some as noble and musical as the best parts of Homer. The poem contains 220.000 lines, with 18,000 supplementary ones, and is held in such high honor by Indians that it is learned by heart. The Indians sit around some Brahmin, and consider it one of the greatest boons to listen to him recite episode after episode. The metre is easily mastered and therefore easily imitated; this quality...