Word: fours
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...schedule of the trip West as follows: The squad of about thirty-two leaves Boston on the 2 o'clock train on Saturday afternoon, stopping at five places before it arrives at Detroit at 7.40 A. M. on Sunday. Chicago is reached at 3 o'clock, where a four-hour stay is made, during which the team will dine at the Harvard Club of Chicago, as the result of a telegram to Major Moore. It ran as follows: "The Harvard Club of Chicago will give a supper for the University football team at 5 o'clock Sunday. All Harvard...
...there should be a joint meet this year it would break the tie that now exists between the Cambridge-Oxford and Harvard-Yale teams. The first engagement took place in 1899 on British soil, where the English triumphed five points to four, each place counting a point. On a return meet in 1901 in New York the Americans were more fortunate, winning by a 6 to 3 score, and this performance was again repeated in England three years later. In 1911 the Englishmen came to the fore again with a 5 to 4 victory, thus tying the series...
...plays submitted far exceeded even my sanguine hopes. The value of the plays in this contest may best be tested by the fact that as a rule. I produce one play-in each thousand submitted for my consideration. That I shall in all probability produce at least four of the forty-two submitted is a criterion at least, of my own opinion of the plays...
...nomination of Robert Gardiner Payne, of Garrison, Md., for the Class Day Committee, and the resignation of Samuel Frothingham, Jr., of Lenox, from candidacy for the Photographic Committee, both of which were received and accepted by the Nominating Committee yesterday, the list of nominees now totals 34. Of these four are for Secretary, five for the Class Committee, 18 for the Class Day Committee, and seven for the Photographic Committee. Thirteen of the total are to be elected...
...server wins the first point, the score is called 1-in, if the receiver wins the first point, the score is 1-out, when each player wins a point the score is called 1-all. The play is continued in this manner until either player has won four points, when the game is called for that player unless his opponent has three points. The score is then called 4-3 or 3-4 as the case may be, and the game is scored for the player who first thereafter gains a lead of two points." The new system will overcome...