Word: rubbed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Columbia crew is said to be rowing in fine form at New London, and is confident of a victory over our 'Varsity. The freshmen, also, are said to have a powerful crew, and will give our freshmen a close rub...
...Crimson has regained its prestige on the ball field. The magnificient victory over the celebrated Pittsburg team which has given the Bostons such a hard rub during the past week should create a spirit of confidence which ought to prove invincible in the remaining contests. We hope our nine will gain the success it has labored to obtain...
...They have changed their old stroke of last year considerably, and seem to be copying Harvard as closely as possible. Though they are by no means rowing perfectly, yet one can easily see that they are a decidedly better crew than '85, and will give Harvard a much closer rub than they did a year...
...call "once more to the breach, dear friends" comes upon us, to waken us from the dream-like reality of our vacation. So absorbed had we become in scenes in other places, other duties and other pleasures, that Cambridge and the semis had almost vanished. It was necessary to rub our eyes to appreciate the reality of dormitory, yard and sanctum. The loneliness, mud, and utter confusion reigning in these places respectively were evidences, alas prima facie, that Christmas vacation has wrought changes only in ourselves. With firmer hearts, therefore, let us come squarely to the front, meet and master...
...Miss Crewel puts perfect confidence in Colonel, leaving poor Nostaw out in the cold entirely. What can Nostaw do? Colonel must be cut out-but how? Let us see. Nostaw has two friends. two very intimate friends, but neither of them is a minister-there's where the rub comes...