Word: split
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hounds, 52 in number, lost the trail after leaving the wet ground and split into two divisions. E. B. Hill '94, raced in far ahead of the men he was with. Emerson and Coolidge were the first two men in the second lot, which had come by a different route. As, by the rules, all the hounds should have staid by Emerson, the master of hounds, until he ordered them to break, the first lot of men were disqualified...
...senior class is so near at hand that a protest againt illegal and underhanded methods may seem so late as to be useless, yet we must place ourselves squarely against the unfair methods sometimes employed at these elections. The minute a class begins to have "bosses" and to split itself up into antagonistic factions, each running its own candidates, the fairness and honorableness which ought to exist at college if anywhere ceases to exist and the element of "machine polititics" sweeps everything before it. We cannot afford to have a Tammany ring in these elections. The matter of society preferences...
Dean Scores the Winning Touch-down.Then picking up the ball, he rushed away for Yale's goal. It was a hard race between him and tall Hartwell, but Dean was to the line ahead. Again Trafford kicked the goal, and again ten thousand throats split the air. Score, Harvard 12; Yale...
...entrance fee 50 cents, 1st prize pair gold inlaid skates, second prize pair gold inlaid skates, second prize silver cup, third prize pair American skates; 220 yards dash open-fee 50 cents, 1st prize Waltham silver watch, 2nd prize silver carving set; backward race open, no fee-1st prize split bamboo rod, 2nd prize pair opera glasses; figure contest, open, fee $1-1st prize gold medal, 2nd prize silver medal, 3rd prize bronze medal; mile championship of Massachusetts, fee $1-1st prize, silver medal, 2nd prize pair of B and B racers, 3rd prize bronze medal; hurdle race...