Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...LONDON, June 21st.Last Saturday the Harvard 'varsity left Cambridge by the one o'clock train, and arrived in New London towards evening. At Groton, which is on the east side of the Thames River, just opposite New London, the crew left the train, and started for the quarters...
...pass the grand-stand on our way to the quarters, we come directly on to the course, which stretches in a perfectly straight line up the river. The banks on both sides are heavily wooded, reminding one strongly of the scenery about the Hudson River. On the left shore we can see the little railroad, which was built expressly for the observation trains, in which so many people see the races. The trains are made up of simple platform cars, upon which are built tiers of raised seats. These cars are never used at the races with Columbia, but when...
...manager of the freshman nine, who by his diligence and care, has brought the nine out so well financially, as to have quite a surplus at the end of the season. In these times, when we hear so much about "debts of several hundred - or several thousand - dollars," left by treasurers and managers of various college societies and associations for their successors to pay, it is a pleasure to meet with such a thorough, conscientious manager as Mr. Woodbury. He has not only paid up all the expenses of the nine, but he has been enabled by his care...
...close to the inner curb, ran Rogers, of Harvard, while Sherrill, of Yale, was in the middle of the path, and so nearly in front of Lund (or Horr) that the picture shows, only part of his head, part of each shoulder, a thin strip of his left side from arm-pit to hip, and a faint trace of some part of his right leg. Neither of his feet are seen, and no human intelligence could determine from this picture whether he was a yard ahead or a yard behind Rogers...
...brought the announcement up to Harvard from Winston, the trainer of the Yale team, that the Yale freshman class wished to offer a one-hundred dollar cup to be raced for by Sherrill and Rogers; and further, that the time and place of the race would be left to Rogers. Mr. Lathrop at once wrote to Winston saying that, although he had no power to issue a challenge as Sherrill was the person seeking satisfaction, if any challenge was sent here it would be promptly accepted, and he suggested Beacon Park as the place for the contest. To this...