Word: broken
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fair-sized audience assembled on Holmes Saturday afternoon to witness the annual spring sports. A cold east wind interfered seriously with the contests, and it is greatly to the credit of the men that three of the records were so nearly broken. Cogswell's time in the half-mile run, Wright's in the mile walk, and Merrill's in the bicycle race were all of them so close to the Harvard records that it is safe to say that the records would have gone under more favorable conditions...
...rain came down in torrents as the ball was placed for the second half. Mr. Blake rolled up his collar, grinned and said nothing about stopping, and with two or three exceptions, the hundred or more spectators followed his example; they were bound to see the tie broken...
...second half found Goodale retired with a broken thumb, and Towle on the centre. Harvard made a great brace from the start, and played something like their uphill game of last year. Two goals were secured in quick succession, the first swiped by Harding, the second shot by Blodgett. This second goal was the result of very pretty attack, passing and most clever work on Blodgett's part...
...there could be no doubt about the winner. Although Mr. Stevens of Columbia won first place in New York last year with a vault of 10 feet 3-4 inches, he did not do well in the games this winter. Yale and Harvard have both men who have broken the record made by Mr. Stevens and it would seem that he would have difficulty in winning again this year...
...Sophomore Theatricals were acted to a full house last night. The performance began at 8.30, with a chorus of gorgeous, though needy, noblemen, who explained to music from. "Fra Diavolo" that, having been crossed in love, ruined, and otherwise maltreated, had taken to piracy to retrieve their broken fortunes; that their captain, Stubbs, having insisted on taking a ship with ladies on board, they had put him in irons, and now fresh from a ship-wreck were in doubt what to do. A solo, rendered by Weaver as Stubbs, and a chorus tune, "The Bowery Grenadiers" deserve notice. The stage...