Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...intercollegiate tennis tournament began last Monday morning on the grounds of the New Haven lawn tennis club. The high wind, and the state of the courts, which were badly washed, prevented the members of the eight colleges from making any very brilliant plays. In the preliminary round, Brown was beaten by Hall, of Columbia, 6-2, 6-2. Sears beat Johnson of Princeton, 6-1, 6-2; in the second round, Sears also beat Wright of Trinity, 6-2, 6-2. In the doubles, Chase and Tailer defeated Woodruff and Deane, of Amhearst, by a score...
...Columbia freshmen rowed against the Harvard freshmen at New London, June 28. The Harvard crew was beaten by about four lengths. The crews were made of the following...
...annual race between the Yale and Harvard University crews took place at New London on the 29th of June. Harvard was beaten by about twenty-one and one-half lengths, the Yale crew having covered the four miles in 20 minutes and 10 seconds, the Harvard eight in 21 minutes and 24 seconds. Yale's stroke averaged a little over 32 to the minute, while Harvard's was somewhat over 36. The make-up of the crews were as follows...
...Columbia freshmen are unusually confident of defeating our freshman crew. They have beaten the Dauntless crew on the Harlem, and their hopes are accordingly high. There is no doubt that it will be a very close race...
...Henry James is such a powerful writer that I take great delight in reading his works. He has given up his pottering of years past and has become more finished, light, but yet powerful. Time was when I thought Howells was in the lead, but I think James has beaten him altogether. Howells has made a formula and swallowed it, and it has stuck to him. James looks at the world instead of a swinging black ball of geometrical proportions. Still, I think Howells will change his ideas. He seems too clever a man to stick to them. The recent...