Word: cords
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...utmost quickness both in stopping the ball and in recovery, then accurately and swiftly to return it underhanded and overhanded. Much attention is given to base-sliding, head foremost as well as feet foremost, and to sliding around and in front of the base. A cage, consisting of cord netting suspended from the ceiling and enclosing a space 70 by 30 feet, will be put in position in a week or two for battery work...
...although as yet no photographs have been taken with it, the expectation is that great results in that line, will eventually be attained. A stone residence has been built for the observers, at considerable expense. The expedition has been received very kindly by the people there and Mr. Mac Cord, superintendent of the Mollendo Railway, offered them the use of his home during the erection of the stone-house. Through the assistance of the American Minister of Bolivia, Mr. Anderson, an expedition of much archaeological interest, was made to Tiahuanuco and the sacred islands of the Incas on Lake Titicaca...
...this number of the Advocate. The heroine of the tale is a chorus girl in Francis Wilson's Opera Company who is loved wisely and well by a Harvard man, who marries another girl, however, and who herself finally marries his valet. Cupid still continues to stretch "the silver cord of love" between the Harvard man and his operatic loved one, and as the correct working out of the plot demands that they should come together, the wife of the Harvard man and his valet very conveniently fall off a wharf and are drowned! While the story, as a whole...
...Jarvis Field Saturday by a score of 26 to six. Two half hours were played. The Harvard eleven did not play a good game, and its work taken all in all was discouraging. More discouraging still, however, were the injuries which some of the players received. Shea had a cord in his knee very badly strained. His leg has been put in splints and he will not be able to come out again for at least ten days. Emmons had his back wrenched. He was ill from the effects of the hurt all Saturday evening, but Dr. Conant hopes...
...galleries will also be hung with bunting and flags. The design of the invitations is a Yale monogram in a leafy effect with the '92 class numerals intertwined with the letters. The dance orders are unique. The gentlemen's programmes are of lavender leather tied with a blue cord and lined with blue silk. The front is ornamented with a bronze shield and ivy leaves. In the upper left hand corner " '92" surmounts a small spoon resting on a large "Y." The ladies' orders are of cream colored leather tied with white and lined with white silk. The front...