Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...when each side scored a touch down and goal. Harvard scored in about ten minutes; then the ball went to Worcester and the Academy boys soon made the score a tie. Worcester found holes repeatedly in the line and several times the freshman backs were downed before they could stir from their tracks. Considerable gains were made around Harvard's right end which could not hold its own. The freshmen were at times sleepy, but as a whole the game went off with a good deal of snap. The make-up of the teams was as follows...
...voices As anyone knows who attended the under-graduate exercises at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary in 1886, the result would be no anti-climax. It would be a revelation of the power that lies in one college song, when it is given as it should be, to stir one's pulses...
...such a city that Paul waited for his friends to come from Berea, and felt "his spirit stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given over to idolatry." Now what were the idols that so moved him? First in size and importance was the collossal statue of Athena which towered sixty feet high in the centre of the Acropolis, visible for miles around, and the first object sighted by Athenian sailors on their return home. Then, inside the Parthe non was Phidias' famous statue of Athena made of ivory inlaid with gold. Close by, in the Erectheum...
...bequest providing for it would be most welcome, but what the University needs most of all is a large gift with no conditions attached. Many little gaps could then be filled, each of which now causes great annoyance, and yet is not sufficiently evident to catch the eye and stir the sympathies of any generously disposed graduate...
...means as weak as the score would indicate. Only four men struck out, and they hit the ball as hard and as often as Yale, but directly into the fielders' hands. Yale had very good luck in getting her hits between the bases, while their infielders had hardly to stir from her tracks except in two instances. The Yale men, however, played a much more wide-awake game than Harvard, and ran bases with plenty of dash. Upton backed up Downer well but was off in his throwing to second, and he allowed men to steal third on him several...