Word: hacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...severe tussle took place in Harvard Square last evening about half-past ten. Two of the Cambridge "finest," after several repulses, succeeded in arresting a hack driver on the box of his own carriage...
...years ago, and yet he may remember a few things which sound curiously now-a-days Blackheath was then, as now, the great centre of metropolitan foot-ball, although for every match played then on a Saturday afternoon there are now half-a-dozen. Those were the days of "hacking," and scenes which were frequent enough then, nay, which were almost inevitable, would not be tolerated now in the rowdiest of grounds. It was then by no means an uncommon sight to see the ball flying away in one part of the field, while the forward players were crowded together...
...find out how much, not how little, the students know." I should have no fear of questions being unreasonable put by a wise, common-sense professor like this, whereas some learned men expect a student to reach in a few months the level of their own mature knowledge. - D. Hack Tuke, F. R. C. P., before the British...