Word: saturday
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Princeton Sophomores beat the Columbia Sophomores in a foot-ball match last Saturday by a score of 6 goals and 10 touch-downs...
...following is the programme of the Senior Class Theatricals to be given in Union Hall, Boston, next week. Thursday night and Saturday matinee. The Registered Letter and Rumplestilskin; Friday night, A Regular Fix and Romulus and Remus. A few more tickets, which have not yet been distributed, can be obtained at 14 Holyoke. Positively no tickets will be sold at the door. The matinee performance will begin punctually...
...Sharp, Senior, respectfully petitions to be excused for his absence from recitations from Monday to Saturday inclusive, as he was suffering from an aggravated attack of cerebro-spinal meningitis, combined with severe swollen tonsilitis and a 'cataracticus cum auge.'" Granted. Of course it was. I cannot see how any one could resist the appeal of such an accumulation of diseases...
...time 52 1/5 sec. This latter was made July 4, 1878, on the best track in America, warm day, no wind, and in a race between the fastest two men we have at this distance, the second man being but 1/5 second behind. Neither of these men could, last Saturday, on an eighth of a mile track, with cold weather and raw wind, have beaten 53 1/2 sec.; and if they had been in this handicap, at scratch, would certainly have been beaten 5 1/2 or 6 seconds, and the handicap would have been absurd. But who do we find...
...disgrace to all who are responsible for it. When the club next give any handicap games, if they will submit to us their list of entries, we will cheerfully furnish such information as will enable them to frame a just handicap and avoid such abominations as we saw last Saturday...