Word: felling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...over 40 for the loss of but four wickets, when a driving shower began. This and the bowling of Ellis, who had gone on a short time before, proved too much for the rest of the team, and the side went out for 51. Six of the Harvard wickets fell to Ellis for 12 runs. Kaulbach with 18, and S. Skinner with 14, made the only stands for Harvard...
...students that a committee has arranged to bring young Harvard and old Harvard together to honor the memory of their common brothers. The meeting is fortunately to be led by him to whom the present Harvard generation owes so much of its love and veneration for those who fell in the war, Major Higginson...
...mile walk was Harvard's, first, last and all the time, - although for an instant an ephemeral hope was born in Yale men's breasts by a sudden spurt of Wright's in the fourth lap. He had hardly gotten the lead when he fell from exhaustion and Endicott, Bardeen and Norton of Harvard finished in the order named - the tie which the judges declared to have been between Endicott and Bardeen being given to the former by the latter. Pierson of Yale was a hopeless and indisputable last
...boat house, Ninety-three took its first real spurt of the race, but did not succeed in making any noticeable gain. She then dropped to 35 strokes a minute, while the freshmen kept theirs at 38 and showed no signs of weakening. Ninety-two dropped to 33, and gradually fell behind, though her form was very good. Another spurt by Ninety-three just before reaching the bridge helped her but little. All four passed under the bridge, and on coming out Ninety-four lead by nearly a length. Ninety-five was second, about half a length ahead of Ninety-three...
...gave a very satisfactory exhibition of cricket on Saturday. The Chelsea Club, whose team won the championship of New England last year, put a strong eleven in the field and played well, but Harvard's strongest opponent was the Chelsea umpire, whose work was wretched. Five of Harvard eleven fell easy victims to Simmon's so-called bowling, and Mac Veagh, Hinckley and Smith, suffered from the same cause coupled with remarkable umpiring...