Word: bored
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...weeks before the courts on Holmes and Jarvis will be ready for use. That great inconvenience to players, the absence of backnets, was removed last year, but there is yet one little fault which everyone would be glad to see remedied. It is well known what a bore it is to pay in cash the man who has charge of the courts, for if one does not forgot to supply himself with money when he dresses himself for tennis playing he seldom has the right change and often finds the collector unable to assist him. It would be much simpler...
...superior to that of past volumes. As for the charge of our not leading or making opinion, we deny its truth in the first place. There are comparatively few men in college who read the editorials-not because they are not worth reading, but because it is a "bore" to do so. Besides it is the fashion here at Harvard to mock and jeer and rail at the college papers. The Advocate must know that by experience. But we claim that those who do read our editorials are influenced by them, as we can prove by the communications which...
...boys.' Every college professor of history will sympathize with Mr. Sparks' view and be glad to see it put into practice. Mr. Sparks did his own work thoroughly and conscientiously, but he did not expect much from "the boys." Like them, he thought examination a good deal of a bore. He was a genial and extremely popular man, and when he became president the students always felt that he was on their side. His was a large and generous idea, and in all of his published work he has deserved well of his country, but the idea of the practical...
Just before the game was called on Thursday, some one hoisted a large crimson flag which bore a white "H" on the tall staff at the middle of the northern side of the grounds...
...then made a rush and Porter carried the ball over the adversaries' line, from which Harding kicked a goal. Raymond made a plucky run, but four downs without an advance of five yards gave the ball to Harvard. Holden then secured it and after a run of fifty yards bore it across the line at 3.25. Harding kicked another goal. Perry then made two praiseworthy rushes which secured another touchdown. No goal. The following touchdowns were made by Porter and Holden, who dodged the whole Tuft's team, and two goals were kicked. Time was then called. Score...