Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Fills the neck to keep it fine...
...whole, we may be well satisfied with the result; especially, on comparing it with the first game last year. The Yale Nine were beaten, twelve to two, by the Hartfords, a much weaker Nine than the Bostons. Had our Nine been able to keep up their playing of the first five innings, we might have returned better satisfied; they excelled rather in striking than in fielding, making as many base hits as the Bostons. We thought that the Harvards showed rather less nerve and pluck in playing an up-hill game than we have been led to expect from them...
...races of this kind are not by any means confined to the class which sends the crew. Whenever the Freshmen win their race, the whole College feels a sense of security in its boating prospects; and when the Freshman race is lost the necessity of stirring themselves to keep up the reputation of the University crew is impressed upon...
...lowest Billingsgate. The root of the whole matter is evidently the high and mighty Senior societies, Skull and Bones, and Scroll and Keys, the advantages of which, the Record proudly says in a recent number, could never be supplied by the clubs of Harvard. The petty political bickerings which keep Yale in perpetual hot water do not lead us to envy the system there in vogue. To an unprejudiced mind it might also seem that the time had passed when a self-constituted oligarchy should be able to exert such a repressive influence on the lower classes as to make...
...LETTER has been read by '76 from the Sophomore Class at Harvard, asking '76 to keep up the class ball Nine, and expressing the wish that the two Sophomore Nines may meet some time again. The communication has been answered by '76, in what way we do not know; but we hope our boys were not behind Harvard in politeness, and ask them to keep up the '76 class crew, that the two crews might meet again. - Yale Record...