Word: sports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attest the growing popularity of tobogganing as a sport, it is estimated that there are now about twenty-five slides in and about Boston. Thus far this year, there have been but a few trifling accidents and the weather has proved all that could be desired...
...beyond a doubt (if they desire that), but unfortunately they are heard too. In time they reach their seats, there is a pause for a moment and then the conversation begins. The range it takes is wide: one morning the freshman crew, the glee club, the banjo club, theatres, sport in general and the triumphs of one of the speakers in society, were discussed in the compass of forty minutes. At the last topic the talkers usually stop and for the ten minutes that remain of the hour, their neighbors enjoy a long wished quiet. Meanwhile how do the lecturer...
...your readers to know more. It was composed by Jabez Allen of Stoneham. This Allen was a hard character generally, who took a particular delight in pulling down the dam which flowed Spot Pond meadows, owned by one Timothy Sprague. On one occasion while he was at his usual sport, Sprague saw him, and ordered him to desist, whereupon he wounded Sprague with a charge of buckshot. Either for this or for some other escapade, he was sentenced to sit for several hours upon the gallows, of course at the county jail in Cambridge; and he occupied his time...
...lain unconscious ever since at the point of death. It was a frightful day and any person was in danger, who stood in the open air for any length of time, especially those who played in the game. It is a very sad ending to the pleasant and invigorating sport of the fall. Death seems especially sad and shocking where its cause lies in some sport that was intended to strengthen and invigorate the man and help...
...glimpse of them. Now we hear it stated that Harvard showed more knowledge of modern foot-ball this year than ever before. This means simply that Harvard answered the tactics of its rivals and met force with force, fists with fists. Doubtless foot-ball can be made an interesting sport, but it is far from being that to-day, and there is room for much improvement. Very many who have seen the contests of this year will admit that they would rather go to see a first-class slugging match than the mean, under-handed tactics that characterize Rugby...