Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from doing more serious damage. It is truly remarkable that so few fires take place in the college precincts, but their absence ought not to cause carelessness on the part of the students. Every room is more or less exposed to danger from the chance dropping of a lighted match, and every student should keep in mind the comparative lack of proper means for extinguishing a fire even though it might be very slight. The Harvard fire department, which many years ago effectually extinguished itself in attempting to extinguish an unpopular instructor, is a thing of the past, and will...
...leading scores in yesterday's matches of the Shooting Club were made by the following: Match A, Meade 7; F. B. Austin, 6; W. L. Smith, 6. Match B, F. S. Palmer, 6; W. Austin, 5; W. L. Smith, 4. Match C, F. S. Palmer, 7; F. S. Meade, 6; F. B. Austin...
...SHIPPEN, Sec'y.SHOOTING CLUB. Meeting this (Wednesday) afternoon. Last opportunity for entering the present series of matches. A match will be shot soon with the Dedham Club; those desirous of trying for the team should be present at this and the next meetings. Cars leave the square...
...college dormitories. While these noises have not been so great as to attract the attention of proctors, they have been sufficient to disturb more than one man whose mind, for the moment, was bent on "grinding." It is not very soothing to the nerves to hear a wrestling match going on over one's head; to hear a long struggle, as indicated by the falling of chairs and tables, and then to know, from an awful thud and a jar which almost shakes the globes from the chandeliers, that one man has gone down and is only waiting for breath...
...Shooting Club has challenged the Sheff. Gun Club of Yale to a clay-pigeon match to take place May, 1886. Yale is debating the feasibility...