Word: roped
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Professor Rope's Bible study class in Phillips Brooks House...
...Professor Rope's Bible study class in Phillips Brooks House...
...arouse any interest, as it was played under the Canadian code of rules. The principal differences between these rules and the rules then in force in the University was, to quote a daily paper of that date, that "under the Harvard rules the ball must be kicked over a rope extending across the entire field, while accordingly to the McGill plan, the ball must be kicked over a wooden bar 10 feet from the ground...
...last period, another Tufts pass was intercepted, this time on the 34-yard line. Eight rushes resulted in victory for Harvard. During the remainder of the contest, Tufts was at the end of its rope, throwing pass after pass in desperate attempts to score...
...those who thought they had any grievances taking advantage of such time to resent them. Compulsory attendance upon religious exercises seemed to many to justify their using every means to evade or disregard them. Thus the bell was turned up and filled with water which froze at night: the rope on which it was hung was cut and the Bible was stolen from the pulpit...