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Word: points (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thirty hounds. After doubling twice on their track, the hares started up Brattle street, and then crossed over to Mt. Auburn street where there was a clear cut until Watertown was reached. Here the hares started cross country, over half ploughed fields, full of rocks and stubble. At this point some of the hounds gave out, probably from the supposition that if they had been built for running, nature would have furnished them with four legs instead of two, and accordingly took the horse-cars back to Cambridge. After passing by the Brighton abattoir, the scent was found leading down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hare and Hounds. | 11/10/1887 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- In last Saturday's CRIMSON appeared a very vicious and wholly uncalled for attack upon the instructor in English 12. The writer complains because the criticisms on his themes are pithy and to the point-because the instructor gives his real opinion in a few words, of poor and hasty work. Is the writer of this bitter invective so thin-skinned that a few short, sharp criticisms penetrate to his very marrow? If so, it proves the thorough efficiency of the instructor; if not, Mr. "English 12" has no right to complain. The instructors at Harvard take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/9/1887 | See Source »

...possible to do away with this delay? It seems as though there might be a rule which should compel the leaders of the hounds to wait only a specified time, or until a certain number has come up to the point of breaking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 11/8/1887 | See Source »

...regard to one's development as plotted in Dr. Sargent's anthropometric chart, the point of greatest significance is not to see how many of one's measurements come in the centre of the chart, but to first endeavor to straighten one's line wherever it may be, and then carry it forward as near the one-hundred per cent. line as possible. In other words, endeavor to obtain a symmetrical figure; then strive for a fullorbed and harmonious development of all parts of the body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Physical Characteristics of the Athlete. | 11/8/1887 | See Source »

GLEE CLUB AND PIERIAN ASSOCIATION.- There will be an important meeting to-day at 4.15 in Roberts Hall for the election of officers. Every member of Glee Club and of Pierian should make it a point to be there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 11/7/1887 | See Source »

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