Word: big
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...difficulty seems to have been the result of two distinct causes. In the first place, more season tickets were sold this year than ever before and in fact more than could be properly provided for at the big games. The entire Harvard side must be reserved for these ticket-holders. The other cause was the sending to Dartmouth of so many tickets when no previous provision had been made whereby graduates could see the game. The Corporation has consented to go back on its original decision with regard to wooden stands in the Stadium but only because there seemed...
...Haven, Conn., November 9.--There was a big shake-up in the Yale team in the hour's secret signal practice this afternoon. Hobbs and Warren were out of the game, owing to injuries received in Saturday's game with Brown. Logan, Brown and Murphy were replaced by Haines, Brides and Johnson, respectively. Coy was transferred to end. The line-up follows: Haines, l.e.; Lilley, l.t.; Andrus, l.g.; Biddle, c.; Goebel, r.g.; Brides, r.t.; Coy, r.e.; Johnson, q.b.; Philbin, l.h.b.; Daly, r.h.b.; Field...
...characters of the woods story as the rascally slave of Latin comedy; but three appearances in one week is overworking him, and the reader would sympathize if he struck. Mr. Ashwell writes of a day's fishing in Devon, in which he found sober English trout properly shy of big and gaudy American flies; but the discovery has not chastened his adjectives. The propensity to fine phrases is the besetting temptation of many college writers--not the exuberance of fancy which is attributed to youth, but the exuberance of dictionary which makes some fashionable authors intolerable. There is one parlor...
...record of the Carlisle team during the past few years has been interesting. Their schedule is invariably the longest of any of the big teams and a journey to the Middle West to close their season has no terrors for them. This season they plan to go as far west as Colorado, playing several times on the way out. At the end of last season they were ranked high and but for a defeat by Princeton they would have been very close to the top. This year, they have not been beaten and have made the unusual record of scoring...
...made, especially in the backfield, before long. No especial preparation was made for this particular game, while the Navy apparently put forth, every effort to have their team in the best possible condition for a victory, and they would probably be more than a match for most of the big teams today...