Word: parteing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...their work; and in proportion to the amount of the bet is the extent of this interference. The more important the match, and the more exciting it is in itself, the more strictly is this rule to be enforced. Both the Nine and the Crew are soon to take part in the most important college contests of the year; and in no year has such intense interest been centred on these contests as in this. Therefore would we remind our representative athletes of this generally adopted rule, and would earnestly request them, in their great matches, to avoid everything which...
...foot-ball championship of next year. Six colleges - Yale, Princeton, and Harvard among them - are to be allowed to contend for this prize, and we presume the intention is to offer the same cup each year. As yet no notice in regard to such action on the part of the Polo Club has been received by our team, but should such a prize be offered, it would tend to increase the interest in foot-ball, and the team winning the year's championship would have, for twelve months at least, a very substantial reminder of their prowess. We sincerely hope...
...Sheldon, the Chorister of the Institute, enlivened the more serious part of the repast with well-chosen songs, interspersed with delightful frequency...
REFERRING to the Princeton-Harvard foot-ball game, the Princetonian says: "Owing to some misunderstanding on the part of the Harvard Foot-ball Directors, no one called for us, and we were consequently forced to find our own way out to Cambridge. But this apparent neglect was purely an oversight, as the after-treatment of our hosts most conclusively proved. Once in the company of these gentlemen, the time passed very quickly...
...Boat Club have ordered a cedar shell from Blakey, which will probably be finished in the course of two weeks, and will then show the results of most careful worksmanship on the part of the builder, who, by the way, is considered one of the best in the world. The boat will be about sixty feet long and two feet wide. Special attention has been paid to the construction of the coxwain's seat, and it is believed that in this particular the best possible contrivance has been secured. The crew regret that they have been unable to obtain...