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...Harvard's goal and Bovaird getting the ball rushed over the line and made the fourth touchdown for Princeton. Goal. Score 18 to 0. After the ball was put in play, Sears made a long rush and was downed close to Princeton's goal. Davis then broke through and mane the only touchdown for Harvard; goal was kicked by Sears. Score, 18 to 6. A minute later, time was called. The game was not very closely contested. Harvard seemed overmatched from the start. Princeton had very little difficulty in breaking through and Harvard could not get through Princeton's line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton 18, Harvard 6. | 11/19/1888 | See Source »

Inasmuch as all nouns and verbs are declined and conjugated in this same way, it is easy to translate the sentence, selobs domis mane, we sell the house to the man. And as the adjective and adverb are always formed from the noun by the same ending, ik, iko, (fam, fame; famik, famous; famiko famously), there is never any irregularity; the whole language, after a few hours study, becomes merely a question of vocabulary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Volapuk. | 2/5/1887 | See Source »

...playing. Most of the other men seemed inferior to their Harvard opponents. The game was won by the Somervilles by three goals thrown in short order by Ross during the first half, and by 1 goal in the second made by the same player. Harvard's 2 goals were mane in the 2d, Twombly, and the second by Hood. Once during the game, the ball struck the Somerville goal post, but unluckily bounded back outside the goal. Some excuse for the demoralization of the Harvard defense during the first half of the game may be found in the fact that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse. | 4/27/1885 | See Source »

...shakes his mane ; he shakes his tail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TENDER MADRIGALS BY COLLEGE POETS. | 5/7/1884 | See Source »

...Lighthead once more climbed the granite steps, and venturing in, he encountered two strange and marvellous beasts. One was as a polar bear, white; the other bore the tawny mane of a lion, but naught else pertaining to that creature. Then Lighthead trembled in his sandals, for these guardians of the place seemed very wroth. But the first despatched him to the second, and the second to the first; and whilst they were dallying thus, Lighthead vanished through the door, leaving them still discussing which of them should feed upon him; for he was a fresh morsel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

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