Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...selected teams and nines, but is open to and enjoyed by everyone, no matter how weak. Inducements for the latter to work, are not wanting. They find here an opportunity to put themselves on an equality with the strong by means of diligent and faithful work, and they stand the best chance for the development prizes...
...yard," a name quite strange in this sense to the ears of the ordinary collegian. The whole yard now includes about twenty four acres. The first grant was made by the old town and consisted of four and a quarter acres situated where Holworthy, Hollis and Stoughton now stand. From tine to time, down to 1883, when the last purchase was made, various lots of land were added as the requirements and needs of the college in creased. In the earliest times the old town palisades, to keep away the Indians, ran not far from the western line...
...game' and I an done. The style here has to be completely changed in matches between good players. Against poor or even medium players, the near-net game is apt to pay very well, but against first-class exponents of the game it is simple suicide. Each player should stand on the service line (excepting the server, of course, and he gets up as soon as possible) and if they are up to the mark nothing except a smash will get past them. This is always done in England, and even allowing for the difference in 'calibre' of the players...
...business." Now a trained and efficient life-saving service might be organized if the men of each building should select some one to take command of their body in case of fire, and on an alarm, should assemble at the place where the nearest ladders are stowed and stand ready to get them out if required. The men might be occasionally trained in handling and raising the ladders, and if each man had his station assigned him and knew the duty he was expected to perform, we might reasonably feel that a fair amount of safety was secured...
...enemy's goal-ling, while a back-player, instead of seizing him below the waist and throwing him, calmly waited for him and hacked him over. Men used to leave a match in those days with the blood streaming through their stockings, and if there was not a stand-up fight or two during the course of the proceedings, it might be noted as an unusual occurrence. Old Blackheath residents may call to mind one memorable Saturday afternoon when, after a match between two rival teams from the establishments of two rival Woolwich "crammers," the peaceful village was actually...