Word: fact
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Saturday afternoon the Harvard lacrosse team defeated the All-Massachusetts team on Holmes Field by the score of eight goals to none. The Harvard team was much the stronger, and at no time did Massachusetts have a chance of winning. In fact only once was Harvard's goal in danger. Harvard made four goals in the first and four in the second half...
Yesterday afternoon the cricket team practiced at the Longwood grounds. After a little preliminary batting and fielding, a scrub game was played. The batting on the whole was weak and the fielding slow, owing to the fact that yesterday the men practiced out of doors for the first time...
Last evening Mr. Lehmann gave a smoke talk at the St. Botolph Club in Boston, on "Rowing in Fiction and Fact...
...attention of all Seniors needs to be called to the fact that the time has come when, according to the vote of the class, they should wear caps and gowns. It is to be regretted that the members of the class have not of their own accord started the custom at the time agreed upon. To all appearances, however, only a very small proportion of the class have done so. Obviously if this state of affairs continues and the Seniors show themselves incapable of putting into effective operation a carefully considered vote of the class, the only result will...
...CHARMING BOOK ABOUT OLD VIOLINS.- Violinists everywhere will hail with delight the beautifully printed and authoritatively written book about Old Violins, just published by Lyon and Healy, Chicago. The fact that this volume contains a list of the old violins offered for sale by Lyon and Healy, and will therefore be sent free upon application, does not detract from its literary value nor from the keen interest with which its facsimile labels and other quaint illustrations will be viewed...