Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...discretion of those managing the debates at each college. The banquets have never been successful since they are necessarily held at a very late hour. The judges are tired, and the defeated team is in no mood for enjoyment, while the winners are under constant restraint to keep their satisfaction from adding to the discomfiture of their opponents. The new arrangement bids fair to be both more graceful and more satisfactory to everybody. Another important change is in the order of rebuttal speeches. During the coming year the affirmative instead of the negative will make the last rebuttal speech...
...Newell senior crew was picked yesterday and went out on the river for a practice row. The crew will keep together until about the time of the Yale game, when one or two good races will be arranged for them. The practice yesterday was fairly good considering the length of time the men have been together. A second Newell eight will be formed at once, and will race with a Weld eight about the time of the Senior crew races. The make-up of the first Newell crew follows: Stroke, F. L. Higginson '00; 7, N. Biddle...
Yesterday's matches were the most interesting that have as yet been played. In the first set of the Roche-Thomas match, Thomas frequently passed Roche by his long hard driving and clever back work. He was not able to keep up his game, however, and soon became erratic, with the result that Roche won easily in the second and third sets. Ward and Davis won the match with Lang and Bowdoin in two rather one-sided sets in which there was not much opportunity for scientific playing, the points being usually settled in a few strokes. The next match...
...Harvard's fourth representative in the annual intercollegiate tournament which is to be held at New Haven this week, was finished on Saturday. R. C. Thomas 1M., won the finals by defeating E. W. Leonard '03, in straight sets. Leonard had already played two hard matches and could not keep to his true form. Thomas placed well and made good cross-court drives, but was not compelled to exert himself...
...HURLBUT.ON Tuesday, June 21, I cannot keep my office hours or my evening hours at home...