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Word: takings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...definitely settled that the Harvard-Yale freshman foot-ball game will take place at New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/9/1887 | See Source »

...last Cambridge Tribune speaks of the promptness with which books are furnished at the University Library. It says that for this reason citizens of Cambridge take great pleasure in using the college library instead of the Boston city library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/9/1887 | See Source »

...poor and hasty work. Is the writer of this bitter invective so thin-skinned that a few short, sharp criticisms penetrate to his very marrow? If so, it proves the thorough efficiency of the instructor; if not, Mr. "English 12" has no right to complain. The instructors at Harvard take the students to be more than mere school-boys, who require to be humored and lightly dealt with, lest they "go home and tell their Pa!" Perhaps it might suit our young Ajax were the instructor to say to him, "Oh, please excuse me, Mr. So-and-So, for mentioning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/9/1887 | See Source »

Bull, last year's back, has finaly announced his intention of playing this season, and will begin practice next week. He is a fine kicker and a good tackler, but it will take him some time to get in good condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Eleven. | 11/8/1887 | See Source »

...recovers sufficiently to play in the game with Princeton on the 19th, he will be under the double disadvantage of a lack of practice and a very tender leg. Beecher is the only man in college who is a first-class quarter-back. There is absolutely no one to take his place. Wirtemburg is the best man available, but he is not to be mentioned in the same day with Beecher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Eleven. | 11/8/1887 | See Source »

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