Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they failed on encountering the sharp playing of the Andover team. It is true that Andover men alone are initiated into the mysteries of the brick yard which serves them as a foot-ball field, still ignorance of the state of the grounds cannot in any way explain the loose playing of our team. The freshmen played with little or no order, and all the advantage they gained came from individual plays. Time and again a lack of system alone kept them from scoring and though at times they played hard the steady playing of their opponents beat them back...
...that at Yale the college itself bears the larger proportion of the expenses of the room, while at Harvard it would probably be impossible to obtain from the college more than the mere use of a room without light or heat This fact, however, should be small reason to explain the non-existence at Harvard of an institution fully equal in all its conveniences and appointments to that at Yale. If a sufficient number will grant their support there is no doubt but that the directors of the reading-room will find it possible to secure a room, perhaps...
...recitation tomorrow morning Mr. Parker will explain to his section in Maximum Latin the composition of the examination paper...
...perhaps unnecessary to explain in reference to our editorial of yesterday that Gov. Butler and not the HERALD was the one who ascribed the authorship of "The Brook" to Longfellow...
...held primarily for the benefit of the collegians themselves rather than for the exclusive satisfaction of the patrons of the professional field, and that a college meeting is a peculiarly appropriate occasion for the display of college enthusiasm. How absurd such a notion is it is not necessary to explain...