Word: beating
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...regard for the proprieties of a place where many men are obliged to come for study and research: now, however, there is a continuos undercurrent of talking, tramping of feet and banging of chairs. Nothing is more annoying in such a place than a scuffing of feet, a drum beat on the resonant desk, or a dry episode coming from three benches away. Some communication is necessary and so, of course, is walking, but I suggest that the students be reminded of their present thoughtlessness and of the regards they owe to the rights of other people. The College...
...another year or two Yale will have a new beat house built from money which is now being raised among the graduates...
Marching with drum-beat and with song...
...individuals are known and are not regarded as unconquerable. Their play is not yet up to that of Harvard nor up to the standard of a veteran team, and so there is still much to do. The make -- up of the eleven will be such that to beat it will mean a triumph and the work of whipping it a difficult undertaking...
...Ward placed well, but Davis was very erratic, playing brilliantly at times, and again making many nets and outs. Ward and Davis were a shade the better in team-play, but this was more than over-balanced by the greater steadiness of their opponents. Last year Whitman and Marvin beat, Ward and Davis, the challengers, in three out of four sets...