Word: firm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard's Firm Srand.Then Harvard played hard and Yale bucked the line in vain. McClung took the ball back twenty yards to keep it for Yale; but they lost it on four downs. Trafford punted. Bliss kicked in return, but Newell broke through and stopped it, getting the ball on Yale's 45-yard line...
...ball went low and struck Heffelfinger, who had broken through. It bounded off to the right and the Yale guard and Hallowell both made a dive for it. Hallowell got it and Harvard had the play again on Yale's 18-yard line. Again the Yale rushers stood firm and tackled low, and Harvard could make no gain. Then Trafford fell back again for a try at goal. The ball went spinning off to the left, and Harvard's last chance for scoring was gone...
...annual report of the president of the Co-operative Society and the statement of the financial circumstances shows a completely satisfactory state of affairs. A few years ago the condition of the Society seemed rather precarious. Careful management, however, put the organization on a firm basis again; and the exceedingly judicious administration of the past two years has brought the Society to a level far higher than of any previous period. Its financial credit is perfectly established and the Society, as now conducted, is bound to meet with continued and increasing prosperity...
...contract for a new building for the Sheffield Scientific School has been awarded to a Bridgeport firm, the bid being a little less than $120,000. The building will be used for the mechanical engineering department, and will be situated between North Sheffield Hall and old Sheffield Hall. It will be 106 feet 8 inches long by 84 feet 4 inches wide, in the shape of a parallelogram with round turrets at each end and a boiler and engine room on one side. There will be four stories in all with a basement. On the first floor will...
...treasurer of the Cornell University Navy has handed in recently the report of receipts and expenditures for the year beginning Oct. 15, 1890, and ending Oct. 1. 1891. The report shows that a surplus of Section 199.65 was left from the previous year thus giving the navy a good firm foothold to start the year upon...