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Word: fours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Nine, this fall, has played four match-games and one practice-game. In the match-games the Nine made a total of 28 runs against a total of 23 for their opponents. The Nine ranks as follows in the batting record for this fall: Tower, average T. B., 500; Leeds, .444; Latham, .391; Tyng, .347; Thatcher, .333; Thayer, .304; Ernst, .235; Nash, .227; Wright, .200; Sawyer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/12/1875 | See Source »

...candidates for the University Crew row every afternoon at four and a half, and they are at present being coached in pair-oars by Mr. Loring, '69. The men run four miles three evenings in the week, but the captain expects them soon to begin to run to Fresh Pond, around the pond, and back to the Square, - a distance of six miles. A boat with stationary seats is being prepared for the crew, and the captain has ready now some uniforms, consisting of shirts, drawers, and stockings, all of crimson, that will be serviceable in cold weather. He intends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/12/1875 | See Source »

...example of a class of fellows here to whom, on account of their inactivity and lack of interest in everything after they have got into the societies and clubs, is largely due the defeats which Harvard has been receiving for the last three or four years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HARVARD PLUCK." | 11/12/1875 | See Source »

...Blakey's profit is too high, which seems impossible at the present rate, since the boats will need to be renewed every three or four years, the club officers should investigate the matter, and ask him to reduce his charges, instead of allowing men to think that he "exacts" or "extorts" too much. Mr. Blakey has assured us that he is willing to act fairly toward the students and reduce the assessment as soon as it is possible; we therefore hope that, if the club officers have reason to think that $15 a year is too much, they will publish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/29/1875 | See Source »

...blood, and sends eleven men to kick all Canada into the ocean. If enthusiasm is to be judged by the projects started, the Athletic Association and the new club system will both serve to point a significant moral, and the class and various small societies born in the last four years testify to little stagnation in the social circulation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REVIEWER REVIEWED. | 10/29/1875 | See Source »

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