Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Peck & Snyder will furnish the tennis associations of the colleges belonging to the inter-collegiate association with balls, at a reduction of 20 per cens., namely, at $48.00 per gross...
Professor Gross, who has been connected with the University of Pennsylvania for many years is dead...
When the meeting was called to order, Mr. Reuter was placed in the chair and presided throughout the session. The first business was the protest made by Harvard against the decision in the Harvard-Yale game of last year. It will be remembered that by gross decisions of the umpires, both Yale men, the game was won by Yale by a score of 2 to 1. Our team has never allowed that it was a real defeat, and so appealed. The convention rushed all the business on account of limited time, and the protest was tabled. Among the little business...
...expired, Mr. Peace declared the game finished, " when "it seemed as if Yale must make a touchdown, so near was the ball to the goal line." This plain statement to the effect that Mr. Peace cheated, would, from any other source than a Yale paper, be deemed a gross and inexcusable insult. It would hardly seem possible that any paper published by college men could make such an assertion. All that can be said is Yale ! It is the natural out-come of the cheat-if-you-can style of play which is now known in New Haven...
...fact that all those injured in the late boat-house disaster are now in a fair way to recovery does not absolve the college authorities from the charge of gross carelessness and neglect. The accident might have cost several lives, and because things turned out much better than there was much reason to expect, the whole matter should not be slurred over and forgotten. The college authorities were responsible for the accident, and the narrow escape from something more serious should be a lesson to them which no amount of fortunate circumstances, nor any lapse of time, should allow them...