Word: bets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BOSTON, November 20, 1880.MY DEAR BET. - You may thank your lucky stars that you did not accompany the team to Boston; for, although we won the game, and succeeded in laying up two of Harvard's men in addition, still we were treated throughout with that spirit of unfairness which always has been and, I suppose, always will be a characteristic of Harvard...
...next crowd, only to meet with the same ungentlemanly reception. I finally induced a crowd of Freshmen to put up three hundred dollars, at odds of three to one, - and probably could not have done that if they had not been drunk, - but that was the only bet I made, as I could not find anybody else who would give me better than two to one, and I knew the fellows would never consent to that. But it shows just what sort of fellows the Harvard men are, - they never will bet a cent unless they have a perfectly...
Said she, 'You bet I will...
...bet my summons from the Dean...
That two to one is being bet...