Word: beating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made a rush for the youth whom they took to be green. With a blow he laid one of the bold sophs upon his back. In the melee that followed the light was overturned and extinguished, when the freshman grasped a chair and the sophomores were compelled to beat a hasty and disastrous retreat. The next morning the freshman was called before the president of the college, who inquired the cause of the disturbance in his room the preceding evening. The freshman narrated the circumstances of the case very minutely, and the president listened with the greatest attention. When...
...beat '86 by a score of 8 to 0 on Jarvis yesterday afternoon...
...Harvard in about five minutes, the second by Woods in thirteen. After that Yale resorted to a block game at her goal, and the time limit was played through without further scoring. It was a pleasure to meet such gentlemen on the field, and a still greater pleasure to beat them, foemen worthy of our steel...
...Clark beat Winslow in the final set of the singles of the tennis tournament yesterday. Clark beat Goodwin 6-4, 5-6, 6-4. The drawing in the doubles is as follows : Bullard and Simes vs. Beals and Sears, Clark and Denniston vs. Bonsal and Osborne, Gardner and Warren vs. Howard and Hoyt, Ordway and Buffum vs. Winslow and Rockwell, Mandell and Agassiz...
...rule were well filled and sharply contested. They have in Mr. Baker a phenomenal runner who will probably do much to bring credit upon his class in both the university and inter-collegiate games. Several other runners also showed up well, and with training will make hard men to beat. The jumping was very fair, although there is much room for improvement in this sport. It is to be hoped that all of the men who took part in this first meeting, as well as many others, will continue in active training throughout the winter. If they will do this...