Word: half
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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EVER since the river closed the candidates for the crew have been steadily at work. Five afternoons in the week, from half after four until five o'clock, the crew works in two gangs; one gang rowing at the hydraulic machines in their recently refitted gymnasium in the boat-house, while the other runs between two and three miles...
...college clock on the new Chapel strikes the hours, half-hours, and quarter-hours...
JUNIOR AND SOPHOMORE RHETORIC (second half-year). The examination for those who wish to anticipate this study is fixed for Saturday, January 13, at 11 A.M. Text-books: Whately's Rhetoric (Parts I. and II.); Lessing's Laocoon...
...First Half. - Harvard had the kick-off, with the wind against them, and seven minutes after obtained a goal by a very good drop-kick by Blanchard. During the next forty minutes no advantage was gained by either side, although both struggled hard to send the ball between the goal-posts of their opponents...
...Second Half. - Yale kicked off, and for some time Harvard was hard pressed. At last Holden got a touch-down. The trial at goal by Grant was lost, but Holden soon sent the ball over by a ground-kick. The three quarters of an hour were now nearly ended, but another goal was obtained by Grant, on a touch-down of Tebbets, before time was called. The score then stood: Harvard, 3 goals, 2 touch-downs; Yale, 0 goals, 0 touch-downs. The Harvard eleven were: Forwards, Davis, Tebbets, Bacon, Holden, Hooper, Nickerson; half-backs, Blanchard, Jordan (captain), Grant; backs...