Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Speaking of Harvard's playing in the game with the University of Pennsylvania, the University Courier makes this courteous comment. "With the score nine to nothing against them they only played the harder to win and their plucky uphill fight was admirable although unpalatable...
...with the U. of P., 12 to 12. In the third inning U. of P. had 9 runs when Harvard had not scored. Highlands was very wild and Wiggin was put in for the last three innings. Beginning with the fourth, Harvard made a fine uphill fight but could...
Robert Burns, was born in 1759. He was taken up by the tide of song and melody which was then rising, and carried it to its highest point. He was born poor and all his life had to fight against adversity. He was a hard working plonghman, too poor even to go to school. What little time he could find for himself, he devoted to getting knowledge...
...last event was an exhibition between H. L. Newman '94 and T. H. Mastin Sp. '96. Newman was taller, heavier and had the longer reach He had very Little trouble in winning form Mastin, Who was very weak from his first fight...
...Outing for February is not a good number, there is much more to be criticised than is be commended. The illustrations are very poor, especially the front-piece, "The Veteran's Last Fight," painted expressly for Outing. It would be hard to imagine a tamer fight. It is a picture of a wild hog with two dogs on him and three or four more looking on with a sleepy kind of interest. The effect is almost absurd. The illustrations of "A Comedy of Counterplots" are the worst in the number; one is a fanciful portrait of two men dancing hand...