Word: beating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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HARVARD VS. BROWN.After the brilliant game of Saturday, we naturally expected to beat Brown, on Tuesday, June 1, but the game turned out to be one of the poorest our Nine has played this year. The Brown nine excelled us at every point, and at one time it looked as though we should be whitewashed, without making a safe hit. Folsom and Winsor were both injured during the game, but not so severely as to prevent them from finishing it, or to excuse our bad playing. Shattuck at first did the best work for Harvard in the field, and White...
There is a romantic and highly probable tale in the Columbia Spectator about a bicyclist who, meeting a young woman running away from home to be married, put her on the steps of his machine, and raced with her father and a fast horse for six miles, and beat. The Acta, usually the best of our exchanges, has nothing of any interest this week, except another romantic and extremely slangy story, "A Land Cruise," which has run through several numbers, and promises to go on indefinitely...
...myself in the immediate presence of a very young and pretty girl, who was sitting reading, or pretending to read, at the foot of a large maple-tree whose branches overhung the water. Being a Boston man, my first impulse was to beg pardon for my unintentional intrusion, and beat a hasty retreat; but, upon perceiving my intention, the maiden, somewhat to my surprise, remarked, with more amiability than grammatical accuracy, "Wal, you ain't a-going, are you? Do I look dangerous?" Here was a nice opening for a pretty speech; but as I did not think it quite...
...Seniors' winged feet beat a quick...
...rabid policeman when out on his 'beat...