Word: far
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Cambridge Assemblies will take place on Thursday, December 5, January 9, January 30, and February 13, at the Armory on Brattle Square; this hall is far better than either the Lyceum or Union, being larger than the one and more neatly and elegantly fitted up than the other...
...sailest to fair countries far away...
...very clear. If Cornell considers herself the "champion" of American colleges, she is perfectly welcome so to do, and no one will care to dispute her title. Harvard has now beaten Yale for two consecutive years in an eight-oared race; therefore Yale is out of it entirely as far as the "championship" goes. Columbia she has also defeated in eight-oars. Cornell has beaten Harvard twice in six-oars, and our Freshman crew last year in an eight-oar. As far as the eight-oar "championship" goes, then, Harvard has a perfect right to that title...
...last Saturday well illustrates a point we have always urged, - that a little training and self-denial will accomplish a great deal in athletics in a comparatively short time. We do not speak of the meeting as an unqualified success, for the entries were far too scanty, and some of the times made have been considerably beaten here; but there were two events that step several paces beyond anything ever done before at Harvard, the one hundred yards and the one hundred and twenty. In many of the other races better time would have been made, undoubtedly, had the best...
Bound for a far-off, foreign land...