Word: exception
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Haven. There is no doubt that, acting strictly by the letters of the agreement, Yale has the right of the question, yet what possible difference it can make to Yale whether they play in New York on Thanksgiving or four or five days earlier than that, no one, except themselves, is able to see. If Yale persists in her course, it will look as though it was fear of Princeton rather than support of a great principle which influences such action...
Princeton has thus for won the toss in every game except the graduate game, where ex-capt Bird...
...following firm is to be added to the list of affiliated tradesmen: Benj. French & Co., 319 Washington St., Boston, dealers in photographic apparatus and materials. The discount is 10 per cent., except on Cramer, Eastman, and St. Louis dry plates, on which the discount is 5 per cent. All kinds of apparatus and material...
...general explanation of this state of things may be found in the change of conditions, by which the whole body of the community has been raised by educational processes. Formerly there was scarcely anything which could be called education except among those who were in college or preparing to enter college. Now, the common school and high school courses open so much more learning to boys, that there is a far larger class out of which literary men are likely to rise. Formerly, at least in New England, any boy who showed an aptitude for books was pretty sure...
...Fifty-five seconds, or even 30 seconds, is a big handicap to overcome in a mile walk, but Bemis and Wright walked splendidly and on the first quarter gained 50 yards and on the second 100 yards. On the last quarter the scratch men had passed all their competitors except Murphy. Bemis had secured a lead of about a yard at the start and held it until the last 100 yards, when Wright passed him only to be overtaken by Bemis when within a dozen yards of the finish. Murphy won by a few feet, with Bemis second and Wright...