Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Gunning of the Boston nine has been engaged to train the Holy Cross College nine in Worcester...
College base-ball has spread in every direction. The Maine clubs are remarkably strongly manned, captained and managed. Vermont has a league this year for the first time. In this state, Technology, Tufts College, Boston College and Holy Cross College have excellent organizations, and from the present outlook the material was never better. - Herald...
...well as the moral life we all need times of refreshment, quiet moments for reflection. It is for this purpose that these vesper services have been undertaken; to draw us apart a moment from the cares and perplexities of our engrossing daily life. Like those stations of the Cross on a "Calvary Hill" in Roman Catholic Austria, these services stand for some solemn thought, and give strength for each successive ascent until at last the summit is reached...
Carter, the champion amateur cross-country runner, and Lang, the champion amateur walker of the world, will take part in the athletic meeting at Princeton next Monday...
...group like vultures scenting slaughter from afar. The buzz of conversation in the ring is immediately hushed as the umpire calls Silentium, zur Mensur! and announces that two members of such and such Verbindungen will fight for 15 minutes. Then one of the seconds gives the word to cross swords; and as the two figures in the middle stand with right arms high in the air and swords crossed, the other second cries Los! and off they go. The strokes, coming entirely from the wrist, rain down so rapidly that it is almost impossible for an inexperienced eye to follow...