Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...brought the ball back into our part of the field. A long kick, however, gained a good deal of ground, as Holden threw the half back when he tried to run. Porter then ran the ball to the fifteen yard line, which feat he followed up by kicking too far, sending the ball over Wesleyan's line. In the kick-out the ball went way down the field, Peabody muffing it, and it stopped only at our 25 yard line...
...great number of people had collected to see the races, - including many graduates, of whom a large number were old rowing men. The boat-house platform and the floats were covered with spectators, and the whole scene as far as the lower bridge was lined with students and their friends...
...boats got off fairly well together, and as far as the boat house the race was very close. Here, however, the two outside boats unfortunately collided, and were forced to stop, leaving the race to the two first crews. Crew No. 2 had made much the best start, and though it was pressed hard by crew No. 1, it kept its advantage, and won by about a length. The following was the winning eight...
Such is the German bier kommers at its best, astonishing to strangers, morally revolting to those reared under the influence of Puritanism and yet withal far less harmful than one could at first sight believe. Germans view it with indulgence and make no such serious matter of it as Americans assuredly would. I have no wish to defend it; but it is a permanent institution of the fatherland, and laughable or solemn, defensible or indefensible, it is worthy of inspection...
...only a confusion of twinkling lights, and on the vast black hill which loomed precipitously behind it there was nothing to mark the location of the castle. All was impenetrable gloom. The lights from the Fest Halle made long, narrow streaks of light across the dark, rushing Neckar lying far below. Thousands upon thousands of people were on every hand, waiting breathlessly for the spectacle; but none of them were visible in the darkness. Two rockets shot up ward as signals and then on a sudden, as by a single flash, the old castle burst into a glare of crimson...