Word: passed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Capt. Brooks has commenced with the right principle, - practicing one single play a number of times, and compelling a player if he makes a poor catch, or a bad pass, to try the same again and again. Thus, should he ever find himself in that position during a match, he will know just what...
...opened the services by the reading of a psalm; this was followed by the reading of three portions of the New Testament and a prayer by Dr. Mackenzie. Dr. Peabody then ascended the pulpit and began his sermon on the text Joel ii 28: "And it shall come to pass that our old men shall see visions and our young men shall dream dreams." The speaker spoke with great earnestness of the important place which this world of ideality should have among any body of broad minded men, and said that its presence was not lacking amongst us now. "These...
...pass the grand-stand on our way to the quarters, we come directly on to the course, which stretches in a perfectly straight line up the river. The banks on both sides are heavily wooded, reminding one strongly of the scenery about the Hudson River. On the left shore we can see the little railroad, which was built expressly for the observation trains, in which so many people see the races. The trains are made up of simple platform cars, upon which are built tiers of raised seats. These cars are never used at the races with Columbia, but when...
...finish, there is a large crimson and blue flag, standing directly out of the river, and as we steam up the course we pass them at every half-mile. Most of these flags disappeared after the races last year, and in some mysterious way turned up in Cambridge, where they form very interesting souvenirs of Harvard's victories. At the two-mile flag, where the freshman race is started, we see Point - - on the left, and the New London Navy Yard on the right, where the old man-of-war "Florida" used to be anchored. These last two miles...
...stand at the entrances to exclude the unauthorized from entering. It is the members of the college who are responsible for what follows. Many heedless men give away class-day tickets as convenient fees to their waiters, or their barber, or their goody. These people throng the yard and pass by unchallenged, for their ticket authorizes them to go through. For men of this stamp to bring companions in with them is only of too frequent occurrence. There is no need of remarking about the kind of women who are permitted to be present in the yard; to say that...