Word: maine
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...stated on good authority that the men who were seen running on Main Street last Tuesday afternoon, between the hours of 4.30 and 6, were not escaped convicts...
...meeting this year. The time immediately before and after the semiannuals is the most monotonous season in the whole nine months we spend in Cambridge, and anything which breaks the monotony is truly a godsend. The meeting of the Athletic Association last March in the Gymnasium was in the main successful, and we sincerely trust that we shall see another held there this year...
...information reaches us a little indirectly, but we dare say that the statement, coming from such high authority, is in the main correct. We do not, however, remember any past Commencement when the whole class performed, so we are led to suspect that this is a new device which the "tyrants and oppressors" - the Faculty - have conspired to "spring" upon us this year, and that their wicked plot has leaked out upon the prairies of Illinois. Let every Senior, therefore, begin immediately on his three-and-one-half-minute performance. Yet, if it is not too late, we would humbly...
Tuesday, Jan. 9. - Eleven men were present. The Captain "coached." Four hundred and fifty strokes were pulled. A run and walk was taken on Main Street, where the ground was found in capital condition for this exercise. Distance two miles. The men got better together in their pull, but the time was still poor. The stroke was livelier, as the pressure had been taken off the "Hydraulics." It is evident that the men must pay strict attention to the "coaching...
...tactics of bluster and complaint. . . . . We have the word of four of the most prominent of Harvard's players, that they had not even read over the Rugby Union rules under which the game was conducted. It was patent to any unbiassed spectator that Harvard was governed in the main by custom, and that her so-called surprise at Yale's method of playing was the result of ignorance on her own part...