Word: deal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Terry, Yale '85, has been devoting a great deal of time during the past two weeks to coaching the Yale eleven...
...which it is well known existed in the middle ages has not yet died out, but only last year an undergraduate was dismissed from judicial jurisdiction because he pleaded that only the Vice Chancellor of Oxford could pass upon him. Those Vice Chancellors, by the way, have a great deal of power and are very dictatorial in their ways. The system of Colleges in England is very different from the American. The university is like the Federal government of the United States while the colleges hold a similar position to the states in the American political system. The colleges have...
...torchlight procession was carefully arranged, and presented a very organized appearance. The great variety of costumes, of transparencies, with their manifold jokes, the dazzling glare of torches, from which every now and then, a stream of fire shot into the clear, cold sky, must all have afforded a great deal of delight to the sleepy inhabitants of Cambridgeport and to those of our own venerable, old, hoary Cambridge. All the happiness and gayety culminated when on Holmes' field the messengers arose from earth to carry the news of Harvard's gladness up through the night air to the clear ether...
...number on the programme. All the delicate nuances were rigidly observed. In the second Adagio movement the quality of tone of the whole orchestra was especially warm and sympathetic, the performers seeming to respond better to the wishes of the conductor. The allegro movements were played with a great deal of precision. The whole conception of the Symphony was an admirable one. It is a pity that in place of the Toccata or the Largo, one of Prof. Paine's works was not given and under the direction of the composer himself. It would certainly have been fully as interesting...
During the second half Harvard played rather better, while the Wesleyan backs became a good deal looser in their catching. The ball went down towards Wesleyan's goal, and on a poor kick by one of their half-backs, Holden got the ball and carried it through the whole Wesleyan team, rushers and all, making a touchdown, from which Woodman kicked the goal...