Word: crossings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rely altogether on our superiority in style of stroke and in management. Not only must the eight exert themselves to the utmost, but it devolves upon every member of the university to do his best in supporting the crew, so that next June we may again see Harvard cross the finish line well ahead of her opponent...
Lost - On Fresh Pond, a stylographic (A. T. Cross) pen. Finder will confer a favor by leaving the same at 21 Grays...
...Lost - A Cross Stylographic pen with an "F" scratched on the top. Finder will confer a great favor by leaving it at Drury...
Eight courses of free public lectures are announced at the Lowell Institute as follows: A course of twelve lectures by Prof. C. R. Cross on "Electric Lighting;" a course of twelve on "Analytic Geometry," by Prof. J. D. Runkle; two courses of twelve each in French. by Prof. Jules Luquiens; a course of twelve on "Handbook Rules," by Prof. Lanza; "Machine Drawing" (twelve), by Prof. Whitaker; "European History" (twelve), by Prof. W. P. Atkinson; and "Medieval Architecture" (twelve), by Prof. T. M. Clark...
...Baggatiway" was the Indian name of this game - "a manly exercise," as an old traveller calls it. Lacrosse, "the cross," was the name given it by some Jesuit missionary whose religious zeal was far greater than his sense of the resemblance between things. It seems that when the term lacrosse was substituted for baggatiway "Poor Lo" was becoming an antiquated personage, a thing of the past; it was only when the noble red man was overcome by poor whiskey and too much religion, then we find lacrosse used to signify any thing else than the symbol of Christianity. Writers...