Word: sun
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...field at 2.20 and was greeted with a deafening volley of shouts and tin horn tooting. The Princeton team soon followed and after a short bit of preliminary practice the teams took up their positions. Yale won the toss and played the first half with the wind and sun slightly in their favor. The players were...
...first half of the Princeton-Harvard game it was an even thing-the sky was blue, the sun shone, the Harvard cannon boomed and everything was lovely-everybody was happy and cried, "The finest game of foot ball ever seen!" The second half, the sky clouds and lowers, the sun disappears the cannon ceases to boom, and the complaints of slugging, unfair play, and Ames resound and increase with Princeton's score, till at the close Princeton is pronounced a brute, a knave, a liar. The Princeton players were, heavier men and older men than Harvard and could stand...
Harvard had the west end of the field with the sun at her back while Princeton had the kick off. The ball was dribbled to Poe who ran behind the V of Princeton rushers and gained ten yards. Cowan failed to gain and Black could force his way ahead only a few feet. On the third down Ames kicked. Trafford failed to catch through interference but it was Harvard's first down on her twenty yard line. Saxe returned the ball to Channing who tried to run but was stopped by Cumnock. Ames gained twelve yards; Black made four more...
...bonfires and fireworks, or indeedgeneral demonstrations of any kind, let them take place on the field where the victory was won, rather than on the street or in the college yard. Jarvis is far better in its facilities and its position, and we cannot afford to sun the gauntlet of the city authorities or to put our trees and college buildings in jeopardy. A little discretion may avert a deal of mischief...
...been found necessary to remodel the dark room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. The sun, beating on the south side of the building, raises the temperature of the dark room to such an extent as to cause a variation in the length of light waves, thus interfering with experiments...