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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hereafter no reserved seats will be sold at the base-ball games on Jarvis field, except for the Yale game. Seats at each game will be reserved free for ladies. A section of seats will also be reserved for season ticket holders until game is called...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 5/17/1882 | See Source »

...spring races of 1880, which occurred on May 15, showed the utter impossibility of predicting the results of races. Universal opinion was that the various crews would come in the order of the classes - '80, '81, '82 and '83 - but to the surprise of everybody, except the freshmen themselves, '83 won easily by seven lengths. The crews came in exactly in the reverse order of the classes. The time was as follows : '83, 10 min. 41 sec.; '82, 11 min. 4 sec.; '81, 11 min. 5 sec.; '80, 11 min. 15 sec. The race between the three upper classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHT-OARED CLASS RACES AT HARVARD. | 5/13/1882 | See Source »

...same crew as the one of the preceding spring, except Chaman, who was replaced by C. Perin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHT-OARED CLASS RACES AT HARVARD. | 5/13/1882 | See Source »

...side shall put it in his own touch-in-goal, under penalty of a safety touch." To Rule 7 add - "No sticky or greasy substance can be used on the person of the players" Rule 18 - "A player may throw or pass a ball in any direction except towards his opponents' goal." To Rule 33 - "If in three consecutive runs and downs a team shall not have advanced the ball five yards or lost ten, they must give it up to the opposite side at the spot where the fourth down is made. Consecutive means without leaving the hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FOOT-BALL CONVENTION. | 5/4/1882 | See Source »

...time to save a burning building. Our buildings are so constructed that there is always a powerful up-draft in each entry. Let a fire get under a good headway on the bottom floor and the entry will become a death-trap to those above. There is no escape except by jumping from the windows. Matthews has a fire ladder, but Thayer, the largest and highest building, has no means of escape, except the wooden fire ladders under the chapel, which are not long enough to reach the upper story. A fire, occurring in a building like Thayer during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A WATER SUPPLY FOR THE YARD. | 4/27/1882 | See Source »

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