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Word: highly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cold, and a high wind was blowing down the field. '89 won the toss and took the west goal. Ninety failed to keep the ball long and good rushes by Scott and Perry brought it to the line, where the latter got it over. Scott kicked a goal. After a few preliminaries the ball again found its way to '90's goal, and Woodbury touched it over the line. No goal. Scott now was thrown hard by Wentworth and badly winded. Goodwin took his place for a few minutes, till Scott changed places with Griffing, the latter going half-back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 11/20/1886 | See Source »

...Union held a debate in Boylston Hall last evening. Question: "Resolved, that high license is preferable to prohibition as a method of dealing with intemperance." Regular disputants: affirmative, P. Robinson, L. S., W. Magee, '89; negative, E. Platt, '88, A. Reisner, '89. The vote on the merits of the question was, affirmative 17: negative, 6. On the merits of the argument of the principal disputants, affirmative 20; negative 11. The debate was the most spirited known in the Union for a long time, and many spoke from the floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Union. | 11/20/1886 | See Source »

...close of the contest. Harvard presented by far the best eleven she has put in the field for a long time, and their team play excited general comment." Then in an editorial, "All pronounce the game to have been the most scientific ever seen in Princeton." This is very high praise, coming as it does from another college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Foot-Ball Eleven. | 11/20/1886 | See Source »

Harvard Union Debate. Sever 11, 7.30 p.m. Question: "Resolved, that high license is preferable to prohibition as a method of dealing with Intemperance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calendar. | 11/19/1886 | See Source »

...books that made them think." (Dickens and De Quincey). Nestor's boast of the prowess of his youthful days is paralleled at last. Yes, the youth then were more mature and (individually) they wore Indian blankets, made by the Bay State Mills, in chapel; and there then prevailed "a high, keen, intellectual energy among us all." But why continue such quotations? No true Harvard student can fail to catch the latent sneer so carelessly concealed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Monthly. | 11/17/1886 | See Source »

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