Word: gay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with sandwiches, cheese, bits of sausage, and bottled beer. Anxious fathers and mothers were wedging a slow and painful progress through the crowd, towing some half dozen shock-headed, wide-eyed offspring of graded ages and heights. Surely little Fritz and Heinrich and Annchen and Kaetchie must see the gay colors and the prancing horses, albeit the pressure of the crowd, forcing their tender necks against the ropes over which they hung on tiptoe, threatened slow strangulation, if not instant decapitation. Frantic vendors charge up and down the street, bawling out the name and nature of their wares: Photographs...
...touchdown from an error of Slade's, and another goal was scored. Denneston made another touchdown, from which no goal was kicked, and Slade was forced to make a safety just before time was called, the score standing, Andover, 18; Harvard, 4. The Harvard team was: Rushers, Magoun, Gay, Piper, Dexter, (centre), Richards, Page, Crehore; quarter-back, Crane; half-backs, Hunnewell and Slade; full back, Higginson, (capt.) The Andover team was the same as that which played against the 'varsity...
...celebration, and to the Pope, who honored the occasion by several valuable gifts to the scientific department. In the evening the alumni and guests repaired to the Castle, which was all aflame with light and splendor. The old drawbridge was a bower of evergreens; the courtyard was as gay as flowers and banners and bands and electric lights could make it. Passing through the low-arched passage that leads to the promenade, we come upon a scene of revelry which we shall not soon forget. The altan is covered with tables and chairs; and busy waiters are dashing madly about...
...they played a very loose game and were out weighted, won by the score of 44 to 19. The play of the freshmen considered as a team, was poor, but individual play in many cases was very good. The team played as follows: Rushers, Magoun, Morse, Piper, Garrison, Smith, Gay, Crehore, quarter-back, Crane; half-backs, McCoy and Slade, (capt.); full back, Hunnewell; subs., Emmonds and Curtis...
...LOEB, Sec'y.The following men will be at the gymnasium at 10 a.m. sharp: Morse, Piper, Magoun, Woods, Smith, Crehore, Crane, McCoy, Curtiss, Gay, Garrison, Emmons...