Word: bowls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Carmichael of the Lawrence cricket team has been engaged to bowl for the Harvard cricket team, so as to give the men practice in swift bowling for the Pennsylvania game...
...bowl fight between the sophomore and freshman classes was continued for two hours and at last resulted in a draw. The classes were evenly matched, but the freshmen lacked endurance, two of them fainting during the fight...
...first prize for the high jump will be a cup, the base of which will be made of cut glass and the bowl, artistically arranged to fit in it. The prize for putting the shot will be an etched oxidized ornament which will stand about nine inches high. Both contests will be handicap and open to all members of the university, with a liberal handicap...
...forced to work harder than ever to retain the championship. The finest players whom they will meet are the Columbia men, O. S. Campbell, Valentine G. Hall, A. E. Wright, formerly of Trinity, and Hurd, of Yale. The prizes will be, for first in singles, a large silver bowl of antique design, and for second, a silver tankard ornamented with embossed figures. Tall iron lamps will be given to the winners in doubles, and to the seconds, cut glass decanters with silver tops...
Agan and again the Meds tried to gain the vantage point, but every time they were repelled. At last they had recourse to a stratagem. By a sudden flank movement they baffled the college men, and getting hold of the bowl they charged against the doors of the dead-room. A horrible sight greeted the college men, and they drew back with terror. But the repulsive grins of the "stiffs" were to the Meds only smiles of welcome from old friends. They closed the doors after them, and a minute later they showed the bowl from the third-story window...