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Word: speeding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some dissatisfaction was expressed at the speed with which the chapel exercises were got under way yesterday morning. Many students who entered chapel while the bell was still in full swing were surprised to find the assembled classes engaged in returning the closing responses to the psalm, while those who were a trifle more tardy and arrived just after the last peal of the bell had died away were compelled to rush to their seats during the reading of the scriptures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/6/1885 | See Source »

...COLUMBIA RACE.The Columbia 'Varsity crew of last year was said to be one of unusual power and speed. It was thought that Harvard, if it won at all, would win by but a narrow margin. The event, however, proved this view to be a mistaken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VICTORY WITH THE OAR. | 10/1/1885 | See Source »

...class day comes to an end, and the class, doffing its new tile, goes out into the world to take its stand by the side of those who have gone before. It goes surrounded by all the memories and traditions of the college, and cheered with the hearty "God-speed" of those who remain behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/19/1885 | See Source »

...point. Princeton won easily. Score, 7 goals to none. Princeton, the Druids, and Harvard were thus the competitors in the final round. Harvard was so lucky as to draw the bye. The game between Princeton and the Drnids was well contested, the two clubs being about equal in speed and endurance. The Druids won by a score of three to one. In the final and deciding game between the Druids and Harvard, the Druids were tired from their exertions of the previous hour, but still played with pluck and vigor. The ball was constantly thrown from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Harvard Champions. | 6/1/1885 | See Source »

...work. There will be no system of diet, the men being given as much as they want of plain, substantial food. The stroke rowed by the Columbias is long and steady, with a sharp, wuick recovery, which will send their boat through the water at a high rate of speed. The average weight is fully eight pounds heavier last year's crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Columbia Crew | 5/29/1885 | See Source »

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