Word: faces
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...reputation of our foot-ball eleven has grown to such an extent in the past two years that on Monday they will be called upon to face adversaries whose very coming is an honor to us. The Canadian "team" will be much stronger than the one we were fortunate enough to defeat last fall, and we cannot but look upon our chance for victory now as extremely doubtful. Whatever may be the result of the game, we have an opportunity of repaying, to some extent, the hospitality we have received in our visits to Montreal, and which has often been...
...strove with upturned face to sing...
Even the independent Herald is unable to present to its readers an account of our sports which does not indicate on its face an intent, or at least a desire, to create false impressions. And yet its representative is admitted to our sports, - although his former offences were rank in the extreme. Not only admitted, but given a seat and a chance to write...
...entries were as follows: Messrs. Reeves, L. S., Seymour, M. S., James, L. S. S., Cunningham, '74, Hall, '76, and Morgan, '78. The first match, between Messrs. Reeves and James, consisted of two rounds of five minutes each, in which the former got some very good blows into the face of Mr. James, and proved himself to be the better boxer, notwithstanding the superior strength of his adversary. In the next match Messrs. Cunningham and Morgan showed much skill, being pretty evenly matched. At the end of the second round the judges declared the first to be in favor...
...felt in the shape of "increased earnestness in base-ball matters," in the gymnasium," and in the training requisite for various athletic sports. Drinking has vanished from "spreads." Profanity, which is "not so much an amusement as a habit," has been abandoned. "Joy beams from many a face," while on the countenances of the few unconverted sits "solemn, introverted repression." This state of things is due partly to the efforts of Messrs. Moody and Sankey, partly to those of a number of Rev. Presbyterian Drs. from New York, and partly to the "strengthening influence of room prayer-meetings." These latter...