Word: rounds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...their hearty applause, that they are playing on Holmes Field, and not in a strange land. However good intention an audience may have, it is always hard to recognize the fine points in an opponent's game. The men who go to New Haven to-morrow should mass round a crimson flag, and shout themselves hoarse, if necessary...
...there will be trial-races on May 16 at Beacon Park to select those who will be sent on to represent the College. For further particulars we refer to the officers of the Association; also to the posters that have been placed as conspicuously as possible all round the Yard...
...philosophical studies have given me a habit of generalizing. I got 31, but, owing to my preference for round numbers, I answer...
...wants no narrower, or more exclusive motto than truth - truth which embraces all that is highest and purest in the precepts of all teachers, human or divine; all that is best in the creeds of all churches, whatever their name, but allows no lines of circumvallation to be drawn round its sacred citadel under the alleged authority of any record or of any organization. This is what I mean to express in these two squares of metrical lines, wrought in the painful prolixity of the sonnet, a form of verse which suggests a slow minuet of rhythms stepping in measured...
...third bout of the light-weight wrestling was no more successful than the second, both men acting strictly on the defensive. After eight minutes spent with no result, the contestants were allowed to take the over-the-shoulder and round-the-waist grip, for the two remaining minutes. After some severe struggles, this resulted in a draw. The final bout was then deferred, because of the late hour, to the following Saturday...