Word: mists
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...team at Brookline Saturday afternoon, winning by two birds. The match was very close throughout, the teams being tied four or five times, and it was only by steady, hard shooting that Harvard won. The greater part of the match was shot in the rain, which, with a slight mist, and a dark background, made the birds hard to see. The Harvard team shot steadily, and although none of the individual scores were as high as one made by a member of the Country club team, the work of the team was extremely good, especially when the conditions under which...
...holders of season tickets. The only sections open to ordinary mortals, who could afford neither reserved seats nor season tickets were two or three sections between the back stop and the hospital, where one had to face the delightfully fascinating glare of the sun, which threw a golden mist over the whole landscape, including the game...
...admission to college. Let us require, then, in our entrance examinations a knowledge of one or two of the principal American authors. The schools cannot help following our lead in this matter, and it may be the means of lifting from the eyes of the average college student the mist of ignorance of the literature and history of his own country which now envelops...
Early in the morning there was such a heavy mist that it was thought doubtful whether or no the races would be rowed on time. But all doubts on this subject were dispelled as the fog began to lift at about nine o'clock, leaving a clear course to the contestants...
...offered for each of five lines giving information about him, nothing new was discovered. Mr. Henry Waters, the agent of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, has since taken up the work, and by most assiduous labor has found what he thinks will lead to the dissipation of the mist which has so long overhung the early life of the founder of America's greatest university. Just at this time Mr. Waters is obliged to suspend his operations for want of funds, and has appealed to the graduates of the college for aid. Several alumni associations have already generously responded...