Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second half. Previous to this the playing was very erratic, the men frequently trying for goals while down. Harvard's defensive play was unusually weak and showed the lack of recent practice. In offense, Harvard played fully as fast a game as Dartmouth and in both halves could break through her opponent's cover with ease. For Harvard, Gilles and Clark played the best games, Gilles securing four goals from fouls. Abbott and Newman did the best work for Dartmouth...
...given at present, it is yet by no means sure that a longer holiday would not be advisable. Other colleges find it possible to grant a week more than Harvard, and in at least two cases they require fully as much work during the college year. A longer break before the midyear period would be very acceptable to all and beneficial to a large majority of under-graduates. A Christmas trip would be as popular now with the members of the musical clubs as it was in former times, and would do more than any one thing to restore them...
Until recently the only account of the original Phoenician alphabet -- from which it is agreed the Western alphabets descend through their undoubted ancestor, the Greek,--said that it was derived from an Egyptian Hieratic system of writing. In this theory there is a break of more than a thousand years which separate the Moabite stone from the Prisse Papyrus, "the oldest book in the world." It is possible that the Semites contributed to our alphabet the names of the letters. With these names came, probably through the same people, its specifically alphabetic character. But it is evident that, previous...
About twenty-five men, led by H.S. Knowles '02 and E.W. Mills '01, went in the practice cross country run yesterday afternoon. The course was across Norton's Field, around Porter's Station and back to the Gymnasium, in all a little over three miles. There was no break at the finish. The time was twenty-five minutes...
...fifth cross country run will start promptly at four o'clock this afternoon from the Gymnasium. The course will be five or six miles long and there will be a half mile break at the finish...