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Word: playing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Harvard has still to play one more game with Amherst, one with Princeton, one with Yale, and two with Trinity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/16/1876 | See Source »

...University foot-ball team will not play any more match-games this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/19/1876 | See Source »

...University Nine played the first game of the series for the College championship with Brown last Saturday. Owing to the absence of the first baseman of the Brown Nine, play was not called until half an hour after the appointed time. The first two innings were played in a heavy shower, so that the errors made then, on account of the soaked condition of the ball, were excusable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE-BALL. | 5/19/1876 | See Source »

...farce, it put the audience in a happy and expectant mood, which the excellence of the burlesque did not at all disappoint. Like most burlesques which go through the remodelling and adapting hands of college societies, the title gave a very insufficient clew to the real nature of the play. Few burlesques have been given in public by our students which were so full of conversational "hits" and interesting stage "business" as this one, and it fairly bubbled over with puns, although many of these last were lost on all but the acute ears of college men. The playing, except...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PI ETA THEATRICALS. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

...Ferny "slung an enormous amount of dog," and on Friday evening received a grand floral ovation from his numerous admirers. His abilities as acting manager were admirably shown in the excellent training of the chorus and smoothness of the play throughout. Andrew and Susie received a great deal of applause for their songs and acting, and last, but not least, the part of Mulein Hay was filled to perfection. His sneezing song received a double encore on both occasions, and his dog (it was a real dog) created much amusement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THEATRICALS IN AID OF THE H. U. B. C. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

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