Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...opponents and will have little difficulty in winning. Andover, undoubtedly, has a fine eleven. She excels in team work, and all the men play a quick, sharp game. Exeter did not begin the season auspiciously, but her eleven has improved very rapidly of late, and a stubborn and plucky fight between the two academies may be expected. The last contest was won by Andover, but before that Exeter had beaten for three years consecutively...
...further, they were hardly in condition to play their best game, for they had played on Thursday and Friday and had been up a great deal traveling. Their eleven is made up of strong, heavy men, and if they knew the game they would give any team a hard fight. Back of the line Cornell has three valuable men in Gowger, Osgood and Bacon. Osgood is one of the strongest rushing half-backs seen in Cambridge this year, and Bacon punts very effectively. In the line Collon and Galbraith are very valuable...
...Hovey, L. S., beat H. G. Bixby, 6-4, 6-4 Inasmuch as Hovey will be one of the single men to represent Harvard at the Intercollegiate tournament next week, his fine form is very gratifying to Harvard men. The match was a hard fight from the beginning and was won by Hovey's good back hand line strokes...
...interest in the tennis tournament at Rochester centred in the match between Wright and Howard Taylor, last year's champion and holder of the cup. Some brilliant play was witnessed and after a hard fight Wright was obliged to yield to the present champion. Taylor won the series and the championship by the following scores...
...There is no being in fact who is not under obligation. Moral and not sensual satisfaction is the aim of life and duty toward God is the only path way to preservation. The service closed with the 262d hymn. The choir sang the following selections: Anthem-Forth to the Fight, Ye Ransomed,- Heywood. Anthem-Lift up Your Heads-Hopkins. Anthem-Out of the Deep,- Mozart...