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Word: eying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...member of the Yale 'Varsity Crew, writing in the Courant, states that "it is necessary to observe with a very critical eye to be certain the 'Varsity is not on the water" when watching the class crews now in training for Yale's fall regatta of the 11th...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 10/10/1882 | See Source »

...following comments on the personnel of the Harvard crew are given : "Curtis, slender, intellectual of countenance, as becomes a true Bostonian, who proved last year that a man may lack avoirdupois, wear eye-glasses, and yet row a splendid race, sets the crew a beautiful stroke. Behind him the ponderous Chalfant, with a trunk like Schwartz's and with massive legs and thighs, in boating parlance, "puts plenty of beef into his oar" at every stroke. Then come Hudgens, tall and squarely built; Clark and Hammond, men of height and brawn; Sawyer at No. 2, where he rowed last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD, YALE, COLUMBIA. | 6/23/1882 | See Source »

...been kept profoundly secret. Under-classmen have refrained from talking about it lest they might become disliked. A portion of the boat-house has been divided off from the rest by a partition and a very small door with a very large lock has been an eye-sore to inquisitive visitors at the boat-house. During the last week an unpleasant looking bulldog with his ponderous jaws ajar, each available space of which bristled with a tooth, has made his lair in the boat-house, and has been a gentle reminder to approach only within hailing distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD, YALE, COLUMBIA. | 6/23/1882 | See Source »

Jupiter Pluvius seems to regard our base-ball interests with a moist but unfavorable eye. The game which was to have been played at Amherst yesterday made the fifth which we have been compelled to postpone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE. | 6/23/1882 | See Source »

...call attention to the description in another column of the production of the Latin play tomorrow evening under the auspices of the University of Michigan. The revival will be looked upon with great interest and with a critical eye, in the light of the great success in every way of Harvard's revival of "OEdipus Tyrranus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/16/1882 | See Source »

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