Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...quarterback passing was won by Davis, the others being neither as quick nor as sure as he; Davis, however, has had the advantage of playing with the centre rush all through the season while the others were used to different men. In the drop kicking the ball was passed back from the fifteen, twenty and twenty-five yard lines, every man having three trials at each distance. Cochrane won this event as he also did the place kicking, in which he did especially well, making eleven out of twelve goals. In the place kicking each man had three trials...
During the last quarter of a century Japan has shown a feverish desire to advance. New notions have become mingled with the old and are gradually overcoming them. There is now no danger of Japan's going back to the old civilization. There are two parties in the government, the one favoring the monarchial form and the other the republican form of government...
...GOODRIDGE, Captain.PIERIAN SODALITY.- Picture will be taken this afternoon at the back entrance of Sever Hall at 3.30. Bring instruments...
...looked as if Edwards would win, which he did, 7-5. Score of match, 3-6, 6-1, 9-7, 7-5. The match was well contested throughout, but the tennis was never at all brilliant, the principal trouble being that the men stayed too much in the back of the court...
Buddhism has been often over and underrated. While the inhabitants of Japan and China are in a way Buddhists, they are also Confuscians. The evolution of the religion is a long story, running back in unbroken records to the Vedas...