Word: rests
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bagner-Wild system of drawing, now so much used in tennis tournaments, brings all the byes in the first round. This is done by drawing a certain number to play and giving the rest byes, so that when the round is over the number remaining in is a power of two, which always leaves an even number at the end of each round until the winner stands alone...
...Peirson, '85, vs. F. J. Moors, '86. All the rest drew byes...
...living among us, to give the he one-half of his estate, it being in all about 1700 pounds, towards the erecting of a college, and all his library. After him another gave 300, others after them cast in more, and the public hand of the State added the rest, 400. The college was by common consent appointed to be at Cambridge, a place very pleasant and accommodate, and is called according to the name of the first founder, Harvard College...
...Freshman class as we intend during the year to choose several editors from their number. If any candidates give promise of proving good men we should like to elect one or two before Christmas. The time, however, when it will be best for us to select a freshman editor rests entirely with the class and there it must rest until '88 has given evidence of its ability...
...were ordered to take a few turns on the running track, while Kimball and Peabody remained to practice kicking. The first few days of training are always the hardest and the countenances of many showed that yesterday was their first hard work after a few months of rest. The number of old players on the field was very small, Kimball, 86, Gilman, '85, Peabodv, '87 and Simpkins, '85 were the only familiar faces of last year's eleven...