Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...base-ball championship has been won by '78. The last game between '77 and '78 was won by the latter by a score...
...running, dodging, and scrummages began, in which the sides were about evenly matched. But soon the Canadians had to act on the defensive, as the ball neared their goal. Fourteen minutes after the game began Whiting dropped the ball between and beyond the posts, and goal number one was scored for Harvard. The Canadians now had the kick-off, and sent the ball well up to Harvard's end of the field. Wetherbee caught it, and by a beautiful run carried it far beyond the centre of the field. Here he was stopped, but L. Cushing got the ball...
...time. This half of the game was characterized by some magnificent playing on the part of the Canadians. The beautiful runs of Perram and Taylor, and the kicks of Wilmot and Scriver, were duly appreciated by the spectators. Nor were the Harvards lax in their endeavors to increase their score, though their play as a whole was not so brilliant as in the first half of the game. Herrick made a fine diagonal run, gaining half the length of the field, and followed it up soon after with a touch-down some distance to the right of the goal. Seamans...
...deal." But the difficulty to be anticipated is the interference of the Corporation. In allowing the Hall to be used as a Commons, they reserved the right of vetoing any action of the directors which, in their opinion, endangered the health or financial condition of the association. On the score of health, the Corporation cannot possibly find any excuse for using their prerogative. Nor is there any reason to believe that the expenses of the association would be increased by a change. The steward's salary, together with his perquisites, amounts to quite a handsome sum. Last year...
...orator, his words ascend to the ether above, and are caught only by the broadest ears in his audience. Of the custom of planting ivies I have nothing to say. To point to the walls of the Library, against which clinging vines have been planted for at least a score of years, is sufficient. The magnificent display of green foliage hiding the gray stone is justly admired by all who see it. But cannot the next graduating class add their mite to this magnificent display without saying anything about it? Will not the vine last just as long...