Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Columbia nine was received with great enthusiasm on its return to New York on Saturday by several hundred of the students. They formed in line and escorted the victors to the college campus, where Harvard's defeat was celebrated with a grand pyrotechnic display...
...1886.EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Greater interest is manifested here in base-ball than for several years past. Contributing to this may be counted, an able management, the new experience of being in the league, and the new athletic field which has recently received a sodded diamond, and an ample grand stand. The team financially will be well supported. $1350 was raised at the college mass meeting, not $1850, as some of the papers have stated...
...orchestra in the theatre is not fully understood, and archaeologists still differ widely in their views about essential features. False notions have sprung up about the appearance of the theatre through the descriptions which late Roman writers made of it. To dwell carefully on the details of this grand structure, in which the greatest of the world's dramas were performed, is one of the most grateful tasks for the modern student of archaeology...
Cover-point keeps the ball away from in front of goal very effectively. He has but one fault, he occasionally plays to the grand stand and lets his man get too far away from...
...athletic grounds is a well turfed diamond, and behind it a comfortable, covered grand-stand. The quarter-mile track surrounding the field has been put into excellent condition, and the candidates for the Mott Haven team exercise on it daily under the direction of their trainer, Pennell. They have three first-class men, Page in the high jump, Faines in the mile run, and Kohler in the bicycle race. Several other candidates are promising well, and some of the most sanguine spirits think that Pennsylvania's chances for the inter-collegiate cup this year are fair to say the least...