Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Freshman class at Cornell has a "Bread and Milk Club." Bowls have been provided and a grand banquet is expected on Thanksgiving...
...vote resulted in the defeat of Col. James Scripps for legislature. For years he has been a bitter opponent of every improvement needed by the University and his candidacy was nothing more than an attempt to reach a position from which he could strike more letting blows at a grand old school. Every friend of liberal education will rejoice at the defeat of such an ignorant and blatant demagogue. -[Michigan Argonaut...
...Memorial Hall waiters are busily engaged in practising foot ball, in preparation for a grand match game on Thanksgiving Day between elevens from the upper and lower parts of the hall...
Dear--, You remember in my last letter I wrote you of the grand torchlight parade in which the college was to participate, and of the rush which was to take place between Sophomores and Freshmen at the close. Well, we left Harvard square at about six o'clock, and here it was, that the struggle between '87 and '88 began; it was to see which should get possession of the few horse cars. We pulled and tugged, spilled the oil in our torches over each other's clothes, disarranged the artistic hanging of our black ulsters...
...would certainly be more satisfactory if he played oftener in single-handed matches as a second contest with Lawford, or a set or two with Grimstead would prove very interesting to players generally. The champion appears to combine in his person all the qualifications necessary to make a grand player. Watch his play as critically as you please, and you cannot find a weak spot, Many people have an idea that W. Renshaw's strength is in his volleying and smashing, but this was entirely disproved in his match against Lawford, when he showed himself as strong at the back...