Word: combats
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard's fielding was loose, however, says the Advocate. In this game, Abercrombie of Harvard made "a magnificent throw from Quincy street to third base." The make up of the Yale nine for 1866 is given, together with a "crawl" of their junior class for a combat with Harvard...
...exception we think we can say of the tendencies of college life, with the writer from Yale, that "Our life is neither frivolous nor insincere," and that "there is an undercurrent in it of earnestness and manly purpose which must result in producing men in every way fitted to combat the obstacles of life...
...readers of the CRIMSON enjoyed, a few weeks ago, a friendly combat between the religious editor of the paper and an anonymous correspondent in the Nation, who had taken the trouble to misrepresent, in religious matters, evidently as unintentionally as ignorantly, the university of which he claimed to be an "alumnus." But the evil work had been accomplished. Word had gone forth from our very doors that, religiously speaking, fair Harvard, to put it mildly, was rotten to the core. No words that might be uttered could avail. Jealous colleges, uttered the Pharasaical "Ah, ha!" Papers of which the past...
...Fullerton has given a good maxim for the novelist. There are, however, a few examples of the base made beautiful by art, that seem to combat with his conclusion. The question he has presented is a nice one, and his treatment of it is, one the whole, to be commended...
...lively combat between two stalwart waiters in Memorial caused quite a commotion at breakfast yesterday; after the shower of plates with which they opened the dispute had ceased from lack of ammunition, they grappled, and for some minutes, there was a picturesque fist fight till they were separated. Both were promptly discharged...