Word: mention
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sympathy could not take the place of home support was shown by the fact that for about two years lacrosse hung between life and death. Indeed it was deemed of so little consequence, and the attempt to introduce it was thought to be so hopeless, that there is no mention made of the game in the college papers until May 9, 1879, when the Advocate editorially speaks the first welcome word for lacrosse in the following words.: "The members of the lacrosse team deserve the thanks of the college for having established the game at Harvard." It further ventures...
...After Webster's execution, search was made for this book, with the hope that it might result in some pecuniary benefit to his family. After a long time it was found in a box with minerals. Friends of the family were consulted, and the writer was advised not to mention it, but to appropriate this book to his private use. It belonged to Prof. Webster." This was the professor to whom Ben Butler's famous remark applied, that "we hanged one of them [the Harvard professors] the other...
...trusting courage the youth set out to win his way in college. Peanuts! how many tender associations cluster round this name! Thoughts of boyish joys, remembrance of generous treats, the hoarded pennies invested with the itinerant vendor - and all the recollections that manhood recalls to mind at the mention of this little word. And this parting gift these ruthless despoilers seized with pitiless bands uttering direful threats, unmindful of the tears and entreaties of this unhappy youth thus left at their mercy. "Take my life, but spare my peanuts," he cried in anguish; "sole reminders of my childhood's joys...
...contest lasted three half hours and resulted in a victory for Harvard, with a score of three touchdowns to nothing. In the fall of '75 Harvard again defeated McGill at Montreal, with a score of two goals and two touchdowns to nothing. It may be well to mention here that all accounts of these two trips agree in expressing the utmost courtesy of our hosts and the corresponding gratitude of our teams. McGill did not neglect a single opportunity to do our men a favor or to show their hearty good will. In '76 Harvard twice defeated an "all Canada...
...seventy-five seniors entitled to commencement parts, sixty-five were originally posted as having that distinction on account of their rank, and ten have since been added on the ground of honorable mention...