Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Captain Lewis' men were obliged to take the defensive. Lake and Gray took the play back to the middle of the field, and on the second down Trafford kicked, Hallowell followed it well, and, when the Amherst full back tumbled, got the ball and took it five yards nearer Amherst's goal. Lake ran through and made the touch down. Goal...
...rest of the prose in the number consists of a number of sketches and descriptions. "Goodale's Revival" comes, perhaps, nearer to a story than the others. It is a delineation of one Goodale who "came to college what might be called a religious tough," but who modified his original opinions about religion and ministers very considerably before the end of his senior year. The conception of the story shows some originality, and although as a whole it lacks finish, it is one of the best of Mr. Brown's efforts this year. It is evident, however, that in several...
...side of the wooden post which serves as a plate, and he sprained his ankle so severely that he will probably be unable to play in the games of the class series. This accident occurred on the best diamond on Norton's field, where the home plate is much nearer the level of the rest of the world than on any of the other ball grounds on the field...
...among its governors. Amid the changes which Southwark has undergone, so that most of the ancient landmarks are obliterated which connect it with names already mentioned, the school at which Harvard may have been a pupil, and which Queen Elizabeth founded, disappeared, and the building which it now occupies, nearer Southwark bridge, is already dingy with the damp and smoke of sixty years...
...evening on the text "Love is the fulfilling of the Law." Perhaps one of the greatest advances made in this century is the substitution for doctrines of selfishness prevalent ninety years ago, the generous systems of today of reward and punishment of the lower classes of society, and the nearer approach to a perfect fulfillment...