Word: field
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Harvards met the Bostons yesterday afternoon on Jarvis Field, and played them a very pretty game. The opening inning promised a small score and excellent play, but the score grew, and the play at times was not free from fault...
...student to study well his tastes before making his selection, for the courses differ materially in object. Sophomore chemistry gives a good average knowledge of the province of ordinary inorganic chemistry. While it gives him a little practical and experimental work, it takes him a step into the field of theory and gives him a foretaste of its higher branches. The laboratory work is confined to the study of the most important elements and acids. Junior qualitative analysis is mostly a laboratory course, requiring some manipulation and a fair memory. It consists of lectures on the most prominent bases...
That, when they come upon the field...
...every one in College. The game on Thursday had been a disappointment to all who saw it, for the Canadians, from ignorance of the Harvard rules, had failed utterly in resisting the Harvard Ten, who won the three goals so easily that the McGill players seemed standing in the field merely to be spectators of their opponents' excellent kicking. But on Friday, when the game was to be played according to the McGill, or rather Rugby rules, it was feared that the result would be quite different, - that the Canadians would win the match with little difficulty...
After a half-hour past the time appointed for the beginning of the game, the McGill men, dressed in the English foot-ball suit, straggled into the field, and, after a few minutes, were followed by a shabby-looking set of men, who turned out to be the Harvard Ten. As it happened, the dilapidated appearance of the Harvard players was quite a boon to the lookers-on, for if they had been respectably clad in a uniform of some kind it might have been quite impossible to distinguish between the two sides; but, as it was, one merely...