Word: run
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...remnant of the "flogging" system of the English college may be trace n the custom that obliged freshmen to run on errands for their higher brethren. A freshman never thought of breaking this rule, for if he did refuse to obey the command of a superior his disobedience would meet with the direst consequences...
...THOMPSON, Secretary.HARVARD SHOOTING CLUB. - Meeting at Watertown this (Thursday) afternoon. The following new series of matches will be opened, to run three weeks, best two scores to count...
...have now been at work in the gymnasium since the Christmas recess. They pull chest-weights, exercise with wooden dumb-bells, run from five to ten laps on the track, play handball and practice sliding in the cage. The whole is under the immediate supervision of Captain Vila, who is an old hand at this business, having had charge of two nines previous to his admission to college. He sees that the work is done systematically, and that every man is present except those previously excused...
...willing to offer odds on their nine. It had beaten the Princeton nine, which called itself "the Nassau Club," 30 to 23, and the Lowells, Harvard's old antagonists. Harvard had a try at these same "Nassaus," and came off first best by the narrow margin of one run (17 to 16). "The visitors seemed younger and lighter than the Harvard nine, . . but were decidedly active and spry," says the Advocate. Harvard's play was good and steady throughout in a "tremendously exciting game," won by a lucky hit in the last inning. Of the Harvard-Lowell series which...
...little after three o'clock, in the presence of an enormous crowd." The Harvard nine, although batting steadily, fielded miserably during the first three innings, the score standing 15 to 9 against them. Lowell is blanked in the fourth, and Harvard tallies one. Lowell piles up four in runs in the fifth, but Harvard makes eight, on heavy hitting; score, 19 to 18 in favor of Lowell. Lowell finds a goose-egg in the sixth, and Harvard scores two runs amid such "deafening applause" that the umpire calls for silence; score, 20 to 19 in favor of Harvard. "Ether-rending...