Word: faste
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Brown University Freshmen played with the new Fall River Amateur Nine on Fast Day. The score was 8 to 3, in favor of the Freshmen...
...Nine defeated the Live Oaks on Fast Day by a score of 15 to 1. Two thousand spectators were present. Ernst pitched finely, and was well supported by Tyng. Latham excelled in the field, and gained a wonderful record his only error being an excusable one. Tyng, Ernst, and Wright led at the bat. Say played well for the Live Oaks...
...Latin oration, of which a part is given in the Oberlin Review, may have sounded well enough when it was delivered, especially if it was spoken too fast to allow the audience to notice how strikingly English were the constructions, - and some of the words too; for instance, institutionibus...
...meet" under the auspices of the Boston Bicycling Club was held on Fast Day, at 11 o'clock, in front of Trinity Church. Some twenty-five machines were in line, and a run was had, via Chestnut Hill Reservoir, to Squantum, which point was reached in about three hours. Here the club had a collation, and returned by train. The regular meet was held on Saturday...
ALLOW me a little space to expostulate, not illnaturedly I hope, on a kind of Athletics that seems to be gaining ground very fast at Harvard. I mean to say Lawn Tennis. There are now four clubs, and perhaps five, that have come into existence here this year. These clubs are generally composed of eight members each; that is, we have now at Harvard from thirty to forty men who devote their leisure hours to Lawn Tennis. Many of these men were formerly seen on the river, forming part of the club fours and sixes; now they have deserted these...