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Word: downes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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About 250 members of the University took advantage of the opportunity offered last evening of hearing Prof. Henry Drummond of Edinburgh University on the subject of Christianity among students, and Holden Chapel was crowded to its utmost capacity. After the singing of a hymn, Professor Drummond introduced Dr. Smith of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Drummond's Lecture. | 10/11/1887 | See Source »

room. The game calls for skill and stratagem instead of brutality and unnecessary roughness, for manly pluck and perseverance, instead of tit for-tat kicks and blows. Just here the writer urges the spectator uninformed as to the game not confound running tactics such as 'warding off' with blows. 'Warding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The American Game of Foot-Ball. | 10/7/1887 | See Source »

...field to the home team. At 3. 15 game was called with Harvard in possession of the ball at the south end of the grounds. Morse dribbled to Harding, after a short run passed to Porter, who in his turn gave the sphere to Higginson, who was, however, soon downed. Soon after this Holden made a run of thirty yards which brought him to the Tuft's five yard line. Three minutes after the kick off Wood crossed the line and secured the first touchdown for Harvard. Harding failed to kick a goal. Tufts kicked the ball to Porter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOT-BALL. | 10/6/1887 | See Source »

In a word, let him not be "fresh." If his betters, the seniors, chose to go down in the mud and bite car tracks, that is an eminently respectable thing for them to do. They are not "fresh." They are only clinging to the last relics of a vanished childhood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 10/4/1887 | See Source »

In the other departments the profit charged will be somewhat greater; but the original plan of keeping down the cost of all college necessaries will be adhered to.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Co-operative Society. | 10/1/1887 | See Source »

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