Word: stronge
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Princeton defeated Wesleyan in a championship game at the Berkeley oval Sa urday by a score of 94 to nothing. Wesleyan could do nothing whatever with Princeton's heavy rushers, who played a remarkably strong game. Dartmouth defeated Tech at Boston by a score of 42 to 6. At the end of the first half the score was only 12 to 6, but at that time some of Tech's best players were compelled to retire, and Dartmouth had it all her own way the second half. Lehigh beat Columbia at New York...
Amelia E. Barr, Frank R, Stockton, Mark Twain, H. H. Boyesen and many other well known writers will furnish the fiction for the new volume, which is to be unusually strong, including several novels, illustrated novelettes, and short stories. "The Women of the French Salons" are to be described in a brilliant series of illustrated papers. The important discoveries made with the great Lick Telescope at San Francisco (the largest telescope in the world) and the latest explorations relating to prehistoric America (including the famous Serpent Mound, of Ohio) are to be chronicled in The Century...
Yale defeated Pennsylvania in the Championship game yesterday. Pennsylvania played a strong game and although Yale played her regular team the work was even closer than the score indicates. When time was called in the last half the ball was within a yard of Yale's goal. Pennsylvania would have won the game but for two costly errors of the backs, and slack play in the last ten minutes...
...second set Lockett and Wrenn again took the first two games. Wrenn won the first on strong serving, while Lockett won the second by loobing and placing. The third, fourth and fifth games went to Lee and Tallant, the fourth on Lee's service the other two on errors. The sixth game went to Lockett and Wrenn, the seventh to Lee and Tal and, the eighth and ninth to Lockett and Wrenn, principally on errors. Tallant took the tenth game by some good serving, and made the score 5 all. The eleventh and tweifth games and the set, went...
...contents of the number are on the whole good. The opening editorial is written in a strong vigorous spirit, and summarizes in a very successful way the causes of our lack of success in athletics in recent years. It is only too true that one of the fatal weaknesses of the college in an athletic way is our proneness to one-man dependence, or as the Advocate terms it, "the star system." A result of this is that we are easily discouraged; let anything happen to our star and we become despondent and down on our luck, lose half...