Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game, Saturday, between the Phillips Exeter Academy team and '92 was closely contested, and was won and lost only in the last ten minutes. The freshmen played by far the best game so far this season, while the work of Exeter was rather below its usual grade, especially in the first half. At the beginning of the game neither side gained any great advantage, but at last, by the good work of Harvard's backs, the ball was rushed within a few yards of Exeter's line. Brooks forced it over and scored the only point which Harvard secured...
...fifty football games in the last six years, Yale has won forty-nine with a total score of 2838 points to 47. The only game lost was played in 1885. The highest number of points scored in any one year by opponents is 14, in 1884; and thus far this season the score is 358 to nothing. The list of games includes four with Harvard and five with Princeton...
...query is a natural one why such contests have not taken place at a similar time before. Now that an eminently satisfactory precedent has been established, it will be observed at once that a lasting good can come of it in the promotion of advantageous class rivalry. But of far greater importance is it that an unwearied interest in rowing is certain to be felt throughout the University. All praise is due the senior crew for the masterly manner in which they won the race. And although the victory was in some measure due to former experience, yet the performance...
...glad to learn that last night the Lacrosse Association summoned up enough energy to hold a meeting in Holden Chapel. The lethargy shown by the association so far this fall might lead one to believe that the lacrosse interests of the college were dead. Harvard lost the championship last year, and from the present outlook bids fair to distinguish itself in the same way next spring. However, an important move was made in the election of a captain for the team. We hope that he will infuse a little more vigor into the team and make the men trying...
...solid body in platoons of six or eight without division into companies. A great amount of trouble and confusion will be avoided in this way. A number of aids will be appointed from each class to assist the marshals in forming the students and to preserve the formation as far as possible throughout the line of march. The parade will take place on Thursday, November...