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Word: lies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Hall and Jones have decided not to accept the privilege of playing for the championship, the contest for the championship, the contest for that will lie between the winners of the tournament and Denison and Booth. That contest may not be played off until after the Yale match on March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whist Tournament. | 2/29/1896 | See Source »

...that a baseball captain for the coming year has finally been chosen every member of the University who has its honor at heart will do all that lies in his power to help to turn out the best possible team, whether by coming forward as a candidate, if he likes ballplaying, or by giving his moral support to the nine if he cannot try for it himself. We mention the "honor" of the University advisedly, in spite of the fact that in Saturday's issue we deprecated its undue use as a motive for supporting University teams, since the honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/6/1896 | See Source »

...every way. The success of the team is of small importance. however, compared with the great principal which this election involves. The names of the candidates need not be mentioned, but if we are to have true democracy in Harvard athletics; if we ever hope to give the lie to that too common talk of "clique-favoritism," and "prep-school pull" in the make-up of our teams, now is the time for the Athletic Committee to put an act on record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Choice of Captain. | 12/18/1895 | See Source »

...MacKenzie then addressed the meeting. He delivered a speech of witty and interesting reminiscences of his former membership and then, passing to more serious matters, spoke of the terrible mistake that a college man makes in letting religion lie in abeyance during his four years in college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christian Association Reception. | 11/19/1895 | See Source »

...condescend too far. We will waste no more words in giving the lie to the dirtiest bit of journalistic writing which it has been our misfortune to see in connection with the name of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/6/1895 | See Source »

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