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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...them out of which a first class eleven can be made. With another year's work, which more than half the men will get, there is no reason why we should not be able to defeat Yale and Princeton. One thing especially, the eleven showed to every one who saw the game, that is, that there is no inherent reason why Harvard should not play as scientific a game as Yale, though in past years we have never done so. The eleven has worked hard, and the results have been in proportion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/22/1886 | See Source »

...half to keep hold of the ball and play a defensive game, while our men had to give up all defensive tactics, and pursue the offensive as the only chance of scoring, while Princeton, by means of the lead, was able to keep the lead. As every one who saw the '86-'88 class game last year must remember, it is very hard work for an eleven to play an up-hill game and win it. The following extract from the Princetonian will show what the Princeton men thought of the playing of our team: "The game in general...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Foot-Ball Eleven. | 11/20/1886 | See Source »

...time to improve as much between the game last Saturday and the game to-day as they did between the Wesleyan and the Princeton games, ought to make everybody come out to see the game with a confidence that they are going to see the prettiest game they ever saw in their lives, with a fair chance of the crimson coming out ahead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Foot-Ball Eleven. | 11/20/1886 | See Source »

...except in a few isolated instances. There was an association of the graduates at Paris, and as time went on the power of the Chancellor was taken from him and put in the hands of this association. This revolution was effected with the aid of the civil authorities, who saw the value of the Universities more clearly than the Church did. The masters refused to accept any one given a license if he did not suit them. The initiation of the new master into the body of the masters consisted of a lecture and a dinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Creighton's Lecture. | 11/11/1886 | See Source »

About twenty students at the boat-house yesterday morning saw two close races between a graduate and an undergraduate crew. The race was rowed over the regular scratch-race course, from the old coal wharf to the lower bridge. The following is the make-up of the two crews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday's Race. | 11/10/1886 | See Source »

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