Word: quartered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...drumming for clients." Their other transparencies, though all based on legal catches were exceedingly clever. One represented "Circuity of Action," as exemplified by a corporal's arm and a trim maiden's waist; its reverse, by a diagram of a gentleman birching a boy, gave a good illustration of "Quarter Merited." A second displayed a picture of Austin Hall. A third had cartoons of a gory scalp, labeled, "The First Fee," a Puritan demolishing an Indian, thereby illustrating the "Ancient Action of Conversion;" a convict suit labeled "Livery of Seizer," and a bargain between a poco and an aborigine, representing...
None of the men on the Harvard eleven played a poor game; Holden's playing, in especial, being remarkably good. For Wesleyan, Wells, Steelman, Hamlin and Manchester did the best work. The teams were made up as follows: Wesleyan - Rushers: Cassidy-Glenn, Hughes, Wells (capt.), Fish, Norton, Richards; quarter-back, Steel-man; half-backs, Manchester and Hamlin; full back, Beattys. Harvard - Holden, Faulkner, Wood, Brooks (capt.), Woodman, Butler, Harding; quarter-back, Fletcher; half-backs, Porter and Sears; full back, Peabody. Referee, Mr. Peters, Yale...
...opening day of the celebration of Harvard's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, proved a great success, and Nature seemed to harmonize perfectly in rendering everything beautiful and attractive. The college appeared to be living a new life, for graduates, old and young, came pouring in from every quarter. Undergraduate and alumnus vied with each other in showing their appreciation of the great event, and relieved from their daily routine, spent the greater part of the day in rest and quiet. The gayest-colored bunting displayed from the different buildings and houses outside the college shows that all Cambridge takes...
HALF-MILE RUN.Cogswell, '88, scratch; Strout, '90, 25 yards; Dana, '88, 10 yards. Cogswell cut out a fast pace from the start, making the first quarter in 58 seconds. In the second quarter he caught and ran away from Strout, who in turn ran away from Dana. With the exception of the record of 2 minutes 1-5 second, made by Baker, '86, Cogswell's time, 2 minutes 1 3-4 seconds has not been equalled at any college games for several years...
...another goal was scored. Denneston made another touchdown, from which no goal was kicked, and Slade was forced to make a safety just before time was called, the score standing, Andover, 18; Harvard, 4. The Harvard team was: Rushers, Magoun, Gay, Piper, Dexter, (centre), Richards, Page, Crehore; quarter-back, Crane; half-backs, Hunnewell and Slade; full back, Higginson, (capt.) The Andover team was the same as that which played against the 'varsity...