Word: match
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...conscience and knowledge are both at a low ebb, prepares himself for the battle. That is, he makes his "cribs." An old-fashioned "crib" is made by taking a strip of tough, thin paper, five or six inches in length and one in width, fastening at each end a match, writing the slip full of memoranda likely to prove useful, rolling up each end until the two cylinders meet, and then by a light elastic fastening them together. This crib is held in the palm of the hand and worked by the thumb, the thin paper being easily worked from...
...team in any of the colleges, and it is doubtful if there was ever a better one of native American players than the one which represents Harvard this year. The exhibition of team play was very fine, and the superior training of Harvard's representatives was apparent in every match...
...opportunity to testify by their presence and cheers the appreciation in which the past work of the nine is held. Without reckoning the students, however, it is probable that a large crowd of other spectators will be attracted to the game from a desire to see a sharply played match between two strong nines; for the Dartmouth team, which we defeated this spring by the small score of 3 to 2, has given a new proof of its strength by gaining a signal victory over Brown by a score...
...PRACTICE MATCH. 10 single blackbirds, 18 yards, 5 angles. First, F. S. Palmer, '87, ten; second, W. L. Allen, '86, F. S. Mead, '87, W. H. Slocum, '86, eight; third, J. C. Ayer, '86, F. S. Palmer, '87, seven...
...closing competition in the current match of the Shooting Club attracted just an even dozen of the members to Watertown yesterday. The weather conditions were of the best, and the scoring was high, one member reaching double figures in the singles. Appended is the sammary of the afternoon's work, together with the winners and their aggregates...