Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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After the regular matches were finished an impromptu match was shot at three pair of doubles, with the following result...
...dinner of the Harvard Club of New York city, held on the evening of February 21, a neat compliment was paid to Hon. Jas. Russell Lowell. The dinner occurred on the eve of Mr. Lowell's seventieth birthday, and during the evening. Mr. Francis O. French, '55, read some impromptu verses in commemoration of this event. The verses were greeted with a great deal of applause, and were followed by the drinking of Mr. Lowell's health to the enthusiastic accompaniment of the Harvard cheer. The verses have never before appeared in print, but feeling that every Harvard man will...
Preceding and following the team shoot. were a number of impromptu matches, in which there were quite a number of scores of five straight. These matches with a substantial lunch, rendered the afternoon very pleasant to all present...
...junior was elate and jocund, and the sophomores and freshmen copied the example thus set them. Various parties, curiously enough of four each, seized and held possession of the smoking compartments and played whist; the Glee Club practised its songs, numbers of Pierian men joining and giving an impromptu character to the rehearsal; and an odor of smoke fought with the atmosphere for supremacy - and won. About thirty miles this side of Portland a student resident, Mr. F. H. Whipple, '88, introduced to the first car-load the Mayor of that city, who gave encouraging reports of what might...
...great many impromptu races are run on the track every afternoon by the candidates for the Mott Haven team...