Word: kept
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game right through was a running game. For nearly twenty minutes Technology kept Harvard from scoring, the Tech. men having the ball in their possession fully half the time. Holden made the first touchdown from which Woodman kicked a goal. The ball came back to the Technology goal, and twice Harvard had the ball within the 15-yard line, but in each case three downs failed to carry the ball over the line, and it had to be taken back ten yards. The third attempt succeeded, and Porter made a touchdown. Another goal. Technology made a safety, and just before...
Kent, the full back of the graduate eleven had his eye badly cut at the beginning of the game yesterday, but he pluckily kept his place and did some fine playing...
When the parade was postponed on Saturday night, many thought it would not take place at all, and many more expected it would be a failure; everyone, however, kept his weather-eye open. Sunday dawned mild and clear, but with a strong wind blowing; the evening was cold, and the streets, which had been deep with mud from Saturday's rain, dried up and became smooth and hard. Monday morning came, and the weather still held good; the high wind, which, as before, lasted during the day, fell at the approach of night, and the elements were at last propitious...
...loaned by the Boston Globe. It was in charge of Messrs. Storrow and Elgutter, '87, the former representing a primitive Hollander with a long clay pipe, and the latter, a regulation Indian. Two men dressed from head to foot in red and adorned with long tails - printer's devils - kept the old press in operation, and from time to time distributed to the crowd fac-simile copies of the title page of Eliot's Indian Bible, with two little verses on the back, said to have been composed for the occasion by Rev. E. E. Hale...
This was an organization of the first of this century, and consisted of the thirty laziest men in the class, of which the most supremely lazy was high admiral. About a dozen men dressed as sailors kept the memory of the club alive, and Mr. J. B. Blake '87, dressed in Admiral's uniform, lay on a red divan on a dray, - the laziest of the sluggards...