Word: numbering
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Yale Catalogue shows the following attendance: Seniors, 118; Juniors, 137; Sophomores, 160; Freshmen, 154; total, 569; Scientific School, 206; Theological Students, 95; Medical, 36; Law, 60; Philosophy and Arts, 69. Whole number of students...
...goal. Then the running, dodging, and scrummages began, in which the sides were about evenly matched. But soon the Canadians had to act on the defensive, as the ball neared their goal. Fourteen minutes after the game began Whiting dropped the ball between and beyond the posts, and goal number one was scored for Harvard. The Canadians now had the kick-off, and sent the ball well up to Harvard's end of the field. Wetherbee caught it, and by a beautiful run carried it far beyond the centre of the field. Here he was stopped, but L. Cushing...
...conceal with a heavy cloth, there is nothing in it that does not please the eye. So far I have done my best for you. There are two things which I have left to your own taste, - books and pictures. You will of course need to buy a certain number of text-books, and if you take my advice, you will also pick up from time to time any outside books that may suit your fancy. You can't have too large a library, and nothing furnishes a room so well. For my own part, the fellow who lined...
...tendered to Harvard by Trinity, Amherst, Dartmouth, and Williams, to aid in forming a new Boating Association, we cannot entertain. In leaving the American Association we signified as our reasons for so doing, that we wished to be represented in future by an eight-oared crew, and that the number of boats contesting decreased the pleasure and interest in the Association races. The objection to the new association is not only the inconvenient number of contesting boats, but they will row in sixes if not in fours. Had the persons who have the project in hand considered Harvard's position...
...first half of this race was a good one. It lay throughout between numbers two and four. As the boats began to turn the bend at the middle of the course, Brown's crew was leading, with Page half a length behind. At this point Cheney forced Ogden, who had been keeping as close to the windward shore as possible, to swing out farther into the stream. The tide was running very strong, and number four was carried out of its course towards the opposite shore. The second boat felt the tide much less, and here took the lead...