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Word: passing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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First defence never loses a chance to pass, and plays a thoughtful game, but he is very uncertain in picking up swift rolls, and slow in getting his throw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lacrosse Team. | 4/23/1886 | See Source »

...resolution, offered by Mr. Lund, "That the faculty be recommended to pass a vote entrusting the maintenance of good order in the college grounds to the students for the remainder of the Academic year," was passed unanimously. The committee then adjourned without...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Conference Committee. | 4/22/1886 | See Source »

...enjoyable a custom as that of singing in the yard. Old graduates express the utmost surprise when told that student singing is very seldom heard in the yard, and recall with pleasure their own college days, when any chance gathering of undergraduates thought it no unpleasant way to pass an evening by joining in the jolly, rattling choruses which college men alone can sing. Nowadays all this is changed. Night after night the silence of the yard is unbroken, save by the whistling of some chance passer. The Glee Club saves its energies for more dignified concerts. The great secret...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/20/1886 | See Source »

...ball was again faced, and after five minutes play F. Ross caught a pass from centre field, and squirming by our defence made a very clever side shot which scored a second goal for the visitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse. | 4/19/1886 | See Source »

...question selected for the next debate is "Resolved, that Congress should speedily pass an International Copyright Bill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Union Debate. | 4/16/1886 | See Source »

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