Word: hard-fought
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...everybody must recognize the determination which the nine thus shows to put in good work at every opportunity. Let the nine keep on in the good course it has begun and we will prophesy for it, if not certain success, at least a series of hard-fought and closely contested games with Yale. We congratulate the nine on the early arrangements of dates for its games with the Yale freshmen. They will thus avoid the bother and uncertainty which so seriously inconvenienced...
...game with Yale. In behalf of the Team we thank the College for the general support which it has given this fall, and especially for the enthusiasm evinced by two hundred men having signed for tickets to New Haven. What we may expect with the Yale team is a hard-fought, fiercely contested match; what we trust we may expect of the spectators are actions which are consistent with emulation rather than enmity. The Eleven has our most sincere wishes for success...
...Cambridge-port, - the church to which he had given a large share of his time, whose services he had helped to beautify. In his death, although he was but entering upon his work, we have something of that feeling with which we greet the close of a long and hard-fought life. His labors in College were excessive; besides his regular studies, to which he applied himself faithfully and successfully, he had the self-imposed duties of instructing others, and of doing deeds of charity. The race which he ran was too hard a one; but we may believe that...