Word: match
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ARRANGEMENTS have been made by the Football Club to play a match with Tufts, October 20, on the Boston Grounds; and with McGill, October 26. Nothing has yet been heard from Columbia, or the Polo...
WHEN, in term-time, a comparatively few students go down to New Haven to see a ball-match, excursion rates are arranged and the party go for nearly half fare; but when several car-loads of Harvard students go to the Regatta at Springfield, full fare both ways is charged. Would it be asking too much of the next Regatta Committee to endeavor to make such arrangements with the railroads as to lighten somewhat the attack on the already depleted student pocket...
...quantity. The sensations in the morning were rather singular; sharing in expectancy of something to come, the missing of something that was not, and a general feeling of lie-on-the-grass laziness taking precedence of all other emotions. The average undergraduate discussed the chances of the match, the amount of money he was going to have left for Springfield, and the folly of the Class Committee in not printing more tickets for Memorial Hall, a tune which they unanimously changed about nine in the evening...
During the next two hours the students strolled about the Yard, gazing at such Yale men as from time to time made their appearance, and waiting until it should be time to go to the match. Those who found friends among the Yale men showed them the sights of Harvard, and those who had never seen Yale men before were surprised to find them so much like other people. Of betting there was very little. By two o'clock the seats around the ball-field began to fill, and the crowd, consisting largely of ladies, was amused by the band...
...confidently expected, was a handsome victory which would have been much more highly esteemed had it not been eclipsed by the victory of four days later. Its effect was felt both by the Crew and by the College in the increased confidence which it inspired in our ability to match Yale...