Word: match
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...WHIPPLE.HARVARD SHOOTING CLUB. - Two shotgun matches will be opened this afternoon to run through three competitions. Winners in each will be determined by the aggregate of their two best scores. Entries in each match 50 cents. Conditions as below. Match A, open to all. 10 clay birds, 5 angles, 18 yards rise. Match B, open to all. 10 clay birds, straight away, 21 yards rise. The prizes in each match will be a cup and a medal. Cars for the grounds at Watertown leave every half hour. Those desirous of joining can do so at the grounds...
Whew! "Harvard students held a ratting match several days since for $200 a side. One of the team, from the West, owned a black-and-tan terrier, which he backed to kill fifty rats in thirty minutes. The dog beat the time be ten seconds, and $1000 changed hands. - Exonian...
...many students fully appreciate the relative importance of these events? The newspapers do little to aid us. A polo match, a scandal, or a murder is honored with as prominent a place in their columns, and is as heavily leaded as the account of the downfall of a ministry. In their editorials party wranglings find play ad nauseam. In the maze of news, rumor, gossip and scandal, he is indeed clear sighted who can find his way. The need and usefulness of a course in contemporaneous history will hardly be questioned. Whether such a course is feasible and practicable, will...
Whig Hall boasts as its founder, James Madison, and is something more than a hundred years old. Clio, as her rival is familiarly termed, is a few years older, and sets up that fact as a match for Whig's founder. The truth is that the numbers and influence of both societies remain about equal, and there appears to be no danger of either one's obtaining a preponderance in any direction. In the list of honorary members, Whig and Clio divide nearly all of the professors and instructors of the college, and number besides many of the most distinguished...
...athletics, Harrow is, of course, actively interested. The Thames is convenient for boating, and Eton gives fine practice to all the Harrow foot-ball and cricket teams. There is a great annual cricket match between the two schools, which calls forth, on account of the proximity of London, a tremendous crowd of spectators. This game may be called the closing event of the London season, as the Oxford-Cambridge boat race may be said to inaugurate the season. The fashionable Londoner makes it a point to attend both events, if it be possible...