Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Peabody, Holden and Boyden make fair catches; but the ball is returned every time and Yale gets it near our goal. Peabody just manages to throw Beecher, who passes the ball to a Yale rusher whom Dudley stops. Three downs bring Yale nearer to our line; but on the fourth, Beecher finds a hole, and Watkinson kicks a goal from his touchdown, making the score...
...going fair, when Yale gets it. Three trials gain no ground for Yale, and Morrison punts to Holden, who kicks fair, and Harvard gets the ball. A second time Holden kicks fair and Yale gets it. Yale in vain tries to get the ball nearer our line and the fourth time Watkinson tries for a goal from the field, but fails. Beecher gets the ball from Holden's kick, and Holden's ankle is hurt; Sears takes his place. Watkinson fumbles the ball and goes down in a heap. He kicks to our five-yard line. Peabody returns the ball...
...flags used in decoration on the route of the torchlight parade, are missing, and that it is desirous that every effort shall be made to recover them, insomuch as the owner of three of the flags is a poor man, and can ill afford such a loss, while the fourth flag is one which was carried throughout the war by a resident of the city, whose heirs naturally attach great importance to its possession. It is urged that if any undergraduate was led by the enthusiasm of the moment to carry off the flags, he will certainly now show himself...
...junior sophisters, sophomores and freshmen is there given as 267, hardly more than one-sixth of the present number, and with the graduates then connected with the university, the whole number reaches 386. The vacations are "four weeks and and ten days from commencement; seven weeks from the fourth Friday in December, and two weeks from the third Friday in May." Somewhat at variance with the present state of recesses. Such is the character of the book, and it will certainly pay any one who has a spare moment when in the library to look it over, and think that...
...Hall. A third had cartoons of a gory scalp, labeled, "The First Fee," a Puritan demolishing an Indian, thereby illustrating the "Ancient Action of Conversion;" a convict suit labeled "Livery of Seizer," and a bargain between a poco and an aborigine, representing the "Ancient Action for a Suit." A fourth showed a gentleman being killed vigorously in "Joint Action; "on the reverse an aged darkey was made to illustrate "Black-Male," and a pompous military man, a "Grand Sergeant." A fifth bore on one side two apple trees, a man standing beneath, and in the second scene the apple which...