Word: english
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Thackeray's "English Humorists...
...GENUINE English Cheviots for shirts. Large variety to select from. English and American mackintoshes; low prices. Sweaters, jerseys, tights, and all gymnasium goods; Boston prices and our old standard quality. For baseball, lacrosse, cricket and tennis goods we have the best assorted stock in Cambridge. Clothes cleaned and pressed at short notice. All goods and workmanship guaranteed best. Do not place your orders for summer flannel suitings until you examine our stock. Importer and manufacturer...
...Yale giants" were not as well trained as the Harvard men, it was palpable to the merest tyro that the immense distance between the two crews was due to causes other than the physical condition of the rowers. Although, be it remembered, Yale had improved somewhat upon the English stroke, yet the laborious wastefulness of her style was in sharp contrast to the ease and dash of the Harvard stroke...
...committee of four graduates, only one of whom had rowed in recent years, was appointed to take charge of boating matters. Naturally enough they strove to inculcate in the crew those principles with which they were most familiar, viz., those which pertained to the English or Bancroft system of rowing. Despite the fact that the method introduced by Storrow had brought about the over-whelming defeat of the Yale giants in '85, despite the manifest adoption by Yale of the essential feature of this method, and her consequent successes and despite the marked improvement in the speed of the boat...
...GENUINE English Cheviots for shirts. Large variety to select from. English and American mackintoshes; low prices. Sweaters, jerseys, tights, and all gymnasium goods; Boston prices and our old standard quality. For baseball, lacrosse, cricket and tennis goods we have the best assorted stock in Cambridge. Clothes cleaned and pressed at short notice. All goods and workmanship guaranteed best. Do not place your orders for summer flannel suitings until you examine our stock. Importer and manufacturer...