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Word: rightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Capt. Brooks has commenced with the right principle, - practicing one single play a number of times, and compelling a player if he makes a poor catch, or a bad pass, to try the same again and again. Thus, should he ever find himself in that position during a match, he will know just what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/5/1886 | See Source »

...presented to the Overseers, that the cause of the petition was a repugnance on the part of the students to arise fifteen minutes earlier each day and to incur the physical trouble of walking to and from chapel. To those who signed the petition in honest conviction of right, and to all who hold to their honor as gentlemen, such an imputation is as unwarranted as it can be proved to be untrue. It is now in the power of the students to show what they had in mind when they asked that they should no longer be forced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/4/1886 | See Source »

...those who will represent Harvard to-morrow. But much can be done towards making the sight fairer and more encouraging by having the college colors displayed in every part of the field. We hope to see every man carry quantities of crimson to Holmes Field and wave it there right lustily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/25/1886 | See Source »

Everything is still all right at the 'varsity quarters, and the men seem confident about the race next Saturday. Butler, '88, who had to wait over a few days at Cambridge on account of an examination, arrived day before yesterday. On the whole Harvard's chances for success never looked brighter, and it will be no surprise if the three victories of last year were repeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale's Crews. | 6/25/1886 | See Source »

...rest of the '89 men live in a little cottage directly across the the way. As you enter the house, across the little sheltered piazza, you come first into the parlor, or rather lounging room, where the men spend their odd moments in playing cards, reading, etc. To the right of this room we come into the dining-room, in which are two long tables, - one for each crew, - and leading out from here is the kitchen, where an enormous negro provides the meals. The other rooms on the ground floor are all used as bed-rooms, two men occupying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Columbia Crews. | 6/23/1886 | See Source »

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