Word: harrowing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Oxford-Cambridge cricket match of 1890 will be played at Lord's on June 30th, and July 1st and 2d, the Eton vs. Harrow game will be played on July...
...week before Easter, I ran down to Harrow to see a series of sports by the boys of that famous school. Winchester and Eaton, Harrow and Marlborough are the four great school nurseries for Oxford and Cambridge, and there is no honest athletic pastime but what is encouraged and enjoyed in these schools, the oldest of which (Winchester) has just celebrated its 500th anniversary. Where is there a school in our country where on a Saturday you can see spirited contests in running, leaping, cricketing, foot-balling, rowing and (mind you) all of this is a part in the physical...
...less dependent we shall be on what we may call the stars of the athletic worlds and the better able to produce teams, if not of conspicuous, at any rate of even merit, from year to year. The great strength of the athletic organizations of Eton and Rugby and Harrow lies in the fact that every man in the schools is in more or less severe training...
...says, with regard to leaving Harrow for Cambridge University : "When I first went up to college it was a new and heavy-hearted scene for me. I so much disliked leaving Harrow, that it broke my very rest for the last quarter with counting the days that remained...
...athletics, Harrow is, of course, actively interested. The Thames is convenient for boating, and Eton gives fine practice to all the Harrow foot-ball and cricket teams. There is a great annual cricket match between the two schools, which calls forth, on account of the proximity of London, a tremendous crowd of spectators. This game may be called the closing event of the London season, as the Oxford-Cambridge boat race may be said to inaugurate the season. The fashionable Londoner makes it a point to attend both events, if it be possible...