Word: halfness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About one-half the students in Rutgers college and the New Brunswick Theological Seminary were summoned as witnesses in the investigation of frauds at the late election...
...Week's Sport says that if an All-American football team were made up it should be composed as follows: Rushers-Cumnock (Harvard), Cowan (Princeton), Cranston (Harvard), George (Princeton), Heffelfinger (Yale), Gill (Yale), Stagg (Yale); quarterback, Poe (Princeton); half-backs, Lee (Harvard), Channing (Princeton); fullback, Ames (Princeton). It gives as the substitutes, Dean (Harvard), Trafford (Harvard), Black (Princeton), and McBride (Yale), behind the line, Janeway (Princeton), Stickney (Harvard), Donnelly (Princeton), and Rhodes (Yale) in the line...
...rules aimed at their suppression, which were proposed in the convention held on Nov. 4. She alone voted against them, and the captain of her team is reported by the delegate of the Yale team to have said as he left the convention, that their adoption would disqualify one half of the Princeton team...
...canals, with 300,000 miles of laterals, an investment of over $100,000,000. Alfalfa is cultivated to a great extent on ranches, and where formerly forty acres of grazing ground were needed for one head of stock, now one acre of alfalfa supplies food for two and a half heads...
Channing, half back...