Word: broken
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems assured that the meeting will be up to the standard of excellence which has characterized these meetings in the past. As the new track is in splendid condition, and is, moreover, considered very fast, good time may be expected in many of the events, and perhaps a broken record in one or two. We hope the meeting will pass off pleasantly and will not be marred by those tedious waits which have recently, thanks to the officers of the association, been conspicuous only by their absence...
...large wreath of white roses and purple violets ; the Pi Eta society a large design representing the club seal, and the base-ball nine sent a ball of white carnations with red stitches, two crossed bats and a circle of nine crimson Jacqueminot roses, one of which was broken...
...first in arranging a game with the Yale freshmen, and finally Harvard offered Yale half the receipts and half their expenses to play at Boston. Yale then declared that since Boston was not neutral ground to them, they would not agree to this, and all arrangements were consequently broken off. Then Harvard offered to play in New Haven on the same terms. This proposition was accepted, and a date was fixed for the game. But before our team had started, a notification was received stating that Yale would not play on that day, and for our team not to come...
...importance of that game to the Yale freshmen, it is to be hoped that it may be played here. If, however, such an arrangement cannot be made, brace, '87, and show your rivals on their own grounds that if the custom of playing the game here must be broken, the other and more important one, that of winning the game, cannot be taken from...
...through a course of training, nor to strain himself to excel everyone else. It is free from all suspicion of "professionalism." The canoeist engages in his sport for the pure fun of the thing, and can get along without the glory and black eyes and broken shins on base-ball and football. Canxing contains all the pleasures of yachting, and in addition many others of which the yachtsman knows nothing. To quote from one of the pioneers of the sport in America, "Canxing is the active principle of yachting set free from costly suppers, tyrannical sailing-masters, and the endless...