Word: slips
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...everyone who imagined that Harvard was to prove an easy winner over Yale in the second meeting of the University Track Athletic Association yesterday afternoon at New Haven, the old adage, "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip," must recur as possessing peculiar relevance. Fortunately, Harvard did not make enough slips to prevent her from winning the cup and at the end of the meeting, Harvard had 61 points to her credit while Yale had to content herself with 51 points and the doubtful consolation that she came very near beating her hereditary rival...
...only feature of the Index of this year which is an innovation, is the presence of the three leaves containing the scores of last year's contests with Yale. They are very well gotten up, and are welcome additions, but the editors made a curious slip when they called the games of the University Track Athletic Cup Association, Mott Haven games...
...course this last number was a mistake; the number of western men in '92 when the class entered college was 39, and this is what it was intended to say. Our attention has just been called to the slip, and we hasten to correct...
...himself these questions; let him even write them on a slip of paper. If he does so I am afraid the space for the answers will remain blank...
...ought to be done away with; but money must be obtained in some way or other. We have a Glee Club and other musical clubs, and there is every opportunity offered us to get up a successful concert in Boston. It is absurd to let such a chance slip...