Word: kept
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...slow hunt" the entire pack will be kept together from start to finish, except where the word is given by the master for a race in the finish on the home...
...added to the college lands in 1786. A prominent graduate of the class of 1821 who has lately died, speaks of the Delta, in a book of recollections as a place where "Turkey Shooting," a very popular pastime, was engaged in by the under-graduates. An enterprising yanker kept the turkeys on the Delta and allowed the students for a small fee to shoot at the birds. He trusted to the inaccuracy of the collegiate marksmanship for the preservation of his turkeys and being very successful. managed to make a large profit on his investment. Col. Higginson writes that...
...team found that they had caught a tartar. For, while the Harvard team has done no playing except in an individual way since last May, the Cambridge men have been playing matches all the summer and fall. The game was called at about 4 P. M. Harvard kept the ball most of the time at the Cambridge goal but failed to score through poor team work. Later the Cambridge men got the ball near the Harvard goal and by quick work on their part and poor work by our defense they scored two goals in the last few minutes...
...wind that swept across Holmes Field last Saturday promised anything but good sport in the events to be contested, and kept the 200 spectators, among whom were a few ladies, in anything but a comfortable condition. At 2.45 the first event was called This was the first heat...
...understood in the class meeting that our parade had no political significance. The college turnout meant, indeed, that a majority of Harvard men preferred to walk the streets in Republican company; but it in nowise indicated how their political preferences lay. This was the understanding, and the Union canvassers kept record of the choice of processions. But, by carrying transparencies bearing the presidential choice of the classes, the procession is made to have a decided political significance. Especially is this so in the case of the Senior Class. The senior vote per see is more important from a political point...