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Word: big (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...frog and the ox. The frog envied the size of the ox, and though that by puffing himself full of air he might become his equal. And so we see balloon-like universities springing up around us on all sides with no foundation but a little money and a big name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The American "University." | 2/14/1888 | See Source »

...play a week? Generally twice, on Saturday and Monday, and I can tell you, two good matches in a week are quite enough for a player. The best ones are all professionals, and get paid by the match. I have got L2 for a match when it was a big one, but L1 is good wages for a game. And do you know, the women think foot-ball is a great thing. If there is a match on Saturday afternoon, they can get their husbands to go, and then they are not spending their week's wages in drink. They...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Game of Foot-Ball as Played in England. | 1/28/1888 | See Source »

...very half-hearted if the men think the students do not take sufficient interest in their success to pay their way. The supporters should bethink themselves that they are helping to send out Cornell's first eight, and they may be helping-happy thought-to diminish Yale's "big head." The honor of sitting in Cornell's first eight will be sufficient incentive for an unusual amount of training. We hope that we have caught your attention and we shall endeavor to hold it.- Cornell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rowing at Cornell. | 1/19/1888 | See Source »

...past season has been one full of discouragement to Princeton. The wearers of the orange and black must not be supposed to have forgotten their favorite sport. The difficulty has been that one resource failed after another so unexpectedly, and so often, that Princeton had to play her big matches before her eleven was ready. The first captain left college, the second was lamed in the first game and lost the whole season's practice with his men, and a third captain was practically in capacitated on his first play in the Harvard game. How numerous and sudden have been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 1/6/1888 | See Source »

...BRINE, 10 and 11 Harvard Row, has a big stock of fine Underwear, Umbrellas, English Gloves and Hosiery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 12/16/1887 | See Source »

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