Word: drop
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...appointed for this afternoon and tomorrow will be made to Gloucester and Pigeon Cove instead of to Plymouth as formerly announced. The meet will start at 1 P. M. from in front of University. All who intend going will please drop word to that effect at No. 1 Holworthy...
...between the Law and Medical Schools proved the event of the evening. The teams had been in hard training for over twenty-four hours, and showed up magnificently. The Law School won the drop, the Medical School veering around on the cleats in a most obliging manner. Valiantly the M. D.'s braced to their work, however, and by hard fighting gained back considerable rope, but in vain. The law did not release its grip, but held on bravely to the end. The Victorians team were, Hemenway, '81; Lane, '82; Cook, '82 (capt.); Andrews...
...word was given at 5.22, with '83 on the south side, and '86 on the north. The drop was about even, but '83 heaved immediately, and gained two inches. Soon after '83 again heaved, gaining an inch, one-half of which was immediately regained by a heave from '86. At the end of the first minute the knot was two and one-half inches toward the '83 side, where it remained until the end of the second minute. During the third minute '83 tried three heaves, but in the two first '86 got in ahead, and gained...
...undergraduates. The liberal quotations of Greek and Latin which are scattered through the paper appeal, however, to a body of readers, to whom Latin and Greek are more familiar than perhaps any other subjects. The elective system at Harvard has made it possible for a man to drop his Greek and Latin at the end of his freshman year. The result is that a number of Harvard students are incapable of translating a Greek or Latin sentence, which requires more than the most elementary knowledge of the languages, after their freshman year. In Oxford this is not the case. Greek...