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Word: slipperyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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There was a goodly array of umbrellas on Jarvis Field, yesterday afternoon, about a thousand people being present, including many ladies. There was little wind, but the rain came down pretty steadily all through the game, making the ground and the ball hopelessly slippery. Harvard had the west end of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 11/7/1886 | See Source »

The two Cambridge Assemblies held in the gymnasium have proved a doubtful success. Without wishing to reflect at all upon the managers, for the lack of management displayed, we do desire to register our disapproval of the use of the gymnasium for such a purpose in the future. The invitation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/18/1886 | See Source »

The Williams Fortnight contains the following Harvard notes: "The Advocate has been adopted as a text book in the English Lit course. - The faculty are at present sitting on the new petition for voluntary prayers. - A freshman has been suspended for cutting his teeth. - Beside small-pox, several cases of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 2/3/1886 | See Source »

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I want to give expression to a feeling which prevails among many students at least, in regard to the use of the gymnasium for the Cambridge Assemblies. If the closing of the gymnasium for half a day last Saturday, or the inconvenience of having apparatus misplaced for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COMPLAINT. | 1/15/1886 | See Source »

Promptly on time the two elevens lined up, the seniors having the western goal and the kick-off, and being materially aided by a half-gale of wind. Rushes by Churchill and Woodbury brought the ball to the sophomores' 10 yard line, and Austin twice tried for goals from the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eighty-Six | 11/25/1885 | See Source »

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