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Word: musters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second game of lacrosse in the class championship series resulted in favor of the freshmen. by a score of 2 to 0. Eighty-nine could muster only half their team, but decided to play, and came near winning a victory against odds of two to one. The ball was near Eighty-nine's goal most of the time, but the defence was so strong, and the freshman attack played so poorly, that only twice did the ball go through, and then each time from a scrimmage. Several times Griffing made a good run down the field, dodging man after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ninety-One, 2; Eighty-Nine, 0. | 6/6/1888 | See Source »

...should deter every freshman who can possibly go to do so. The encouragement infused into a team by the presence and cheering of a large number of their class-mates is a potent factor of success, and it would be a pity, indeed, if the freshmen here could not muster as large a delegation to go to New Haven as their rivals brought to Cambridge last Saturday. Besides the duty which devolves upon every member of Ninety-one to support his team to the best of his ability, the game at Yale is one of those land-marks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/24/1888 | See Source »

...founded in 1884 but has never stood very high among the college athletic organizations. Last year it seemed nearly dead. There were five members in the graduating class, two in '89, and a few specials and Law and Medical School men. It began this year with a muster roll of three men and now that the number has increased to over thirty, many rooms are decorated with the crimson silk burgees bearing the gold circle and shield with a black H-the club signal. The club meets socially once a fortnight, discusses business, votes on any names brought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Canoe Club. | 2/29/1888 | See Source »

...Biography of Y", or "The Affair of No. 13 Rue Ghenna" - he should exercise his powers upon subjects less seductive, and harder to treat, perhaps, but affording greater opportunities for criticism, and less facility for masking bad work. It is easy to make a bad story about Antipodeans pass muster, whereas a faulty account of things nearer home stands abjectly and manifestly futile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/23/1887 | See Source »

...Harvard Cricket eleven played the Longwood team on Saturday. As the Longwood team was unable to muster all its members, the men divided up and played sides. The side which consisted of eight Harvard men and three Longwood men beat the other side by a score of 93 to 53. A second inning was begun, but not finished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/3/1887 | See Source »

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