Word: matching
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this season of the year, when the undergraduate comes from home laden with the gifts of his fond parents and doting aunts, when tobaccopouches and match-boxes fill his trunks, it is strange that Memorial Hall should be used for lighting friction-matches...
...against what opponents they were to be pitted. We hope there will be nothing of this kind this year. Let a man decide well if he is in condition to enter the contest at all; and if he is, he should not be afraid to declare his willingness to match himself against any other man that would come under his same class...
...drawn game with us. This gives us two victories, to none for Yale; and on this record we can and do claim the championship for 1877. It is true that Yale defeated Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia last year; but this fall their team has not won a match from any of these colleges; hence for this year we deem that our claim to the championship is just and proper...
...Unlike the Harvard match, there was a noticeable lack of the friendly and gentlemanly spirit which characterized that contest. From the beginning to the end of the game on Saturday, there seemed to pervade the Yale-men a desire to injure and "lay up" our players on every occasion when there was no chance of detection. We were in hopes of playing against gentlemen when we met Yale, but they sadly disappointed us, for their conduct throughout closely resembled that of pugilists, their chief object being, apparently, to win the game by foul or fair means. We do not make...
...GENTLEMAN WITH A LIVELY IMAGINATION.FROM saying that Thomas in lies has no match...