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Word: ninth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which, Smith begins a series of fouls, one of which drops the ball in a swamp and renders necessary a new one." How like the playful habit of "our Clarence!" In the eighth, both sides score four runs, a "fat man in a carriage" stopped another hot foul. The ninth was short and gloriously decisive." Lowell makes one run and Harvard three. "Ecstatic joy and tumultuous congratulations for about five minutes." The nine is carried off in triumph. Mr. J. T. Harris presented it in its tent with a superb trophy in the shape of an ebony bat mounted with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twenty Years of Harvard Base-Ball. | 2/14/1887 | See Source »

...chapel was well filled at the vesper service yesterday. Drs, Peabody and McKenzie conducted the service; the latter delivered a short, interesting address, choosing for his subject the healing of the blind man, as told in the ninth chapter of John. He pointed out the simularity between our own state and that of the blind man who when he received his sight, looked around him and seeing men likened them unto walking trees, but still knew they were men. Though we may feel that things are not what they seem, we have in us a knowledge that tells their true...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 2/11/1887 | See Source »

...ninth ten of the Institute of 1770 from '89 are as follows: R. V. D. Walsh, W. H. Thayer, J. M. Newell, P. Marquand, A. H. Knapp, I. A. Ruland, T. C. Chard, J. B. Crocker, F. E. Zinkeisen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/21/1887 | See Source »

...Instead of the wishes set forth and declared in the said ninth clause, the testator directs that all of said income which shall remain after the payment of the sum of $3000 for the maintenance and support of the 10 scholarships, shall be divided into two equal parts, one of which parts shall be applied to the maintenance and support of the library of said college by the purchase of books, the preservation and repair thereof, etc., and in all other respects this half of said residue to be subject to the like restrictions and conditions set forth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Greenleaf's Bequest Now One Million. | 12/11/1886 | See Source »

Dennison and Mowry made a combination rush, but Harvard got the ball and Andover was forced to make a safety touchdown at 3.32. Two minutes later Fletcher followed with the ninth touchdown, from which Woodman kicked the fifth goal. Porter rushed through and made the tenth touchdown at 3.40, and Woodman kicked the sixth goal. The first half ended at 3.42, with a score of 54 to 0 for Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 10/25/1886 | See Source »

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