Word: drop
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of teams in the league will be so great that it will be impossible for each eleven to play every other one, consequently the matches will be arranged as games in a tennis tournament. Each school will draw for its opponent, and the defeated one shall drop from the contest. An attempt will be made to arrange a match between the winner of the Exeter-Andover game...
...students. It is tacitly understood, however, that as the faculty do not in any way object to the contests in themselves but to the general disturbances resulting from a victory, if the students will pledge themselves to restrain their ardor in the celebrations, the faculty will let the matter drop. In order to insure the continuance of all intercollegiate games, the students have themselves taken the proposition in hand and have set about organizing a special college police force, to do duty in the yard when any celebration is in progress. F. Stevenson, the captain of the crew, has been...
...will greatly aid the committee which has the canvass of the college for presidential preferences in hand if all those who have not yet voted will drop their ballots in the box which has been placed at Leavitt and Peirce's. It is greatly desired that every one in all of the departments of the University in Cambridge shall east a vote, so that the result of the canvass may represent as truly as possible the present state of college opinion on this matter. All will please vote today, if possible, and at the latest on Friday...
...departments of the University in Cambridge to ascertain presidential preferences, and announce the result at the convention. The canvass will begin on Tuesday evening, when ballots will be distributed at dinner at the tables in Memorial. Every one in the hall is urged to fill out a ballot and drop it in the box for newspapers near the door. It is hoped that all members of the college will give their hearty co-operation to the Union in this matter, so that the canvass may be as complete as possible...
...between '88 and '89 was the last event of the meeting. The victory for '88 was almost a foregone conclusion. In spite of this fact, however, the '89 team pulled very pluckily. The senior team got the drop by one quarter of an inch, and soon pulled away an inch or so more. Balch caught Perry as he came down to heave and the ribbon was six inches on the '88 side. Perry, by skillful handling of the rope and by the plucky work of the team, succeeded in getting back all but an inch. The '88 team, however, pulled...