Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with tables and chairs; and busy waiters are dashing madly about with fluid refreshment. Above us looms the beautiful facade of the castle, its grim statues and stone gorgons, its fluting and arabesques, all that is uncouth and grotesque and mournful and majestic, flooded over with electric light and thrown into sharp relief. Far beneath us twinkle the lights of Heidelberg, from whose distant streets a gentle murmur is upborne. About us are throngs of students in their bright colored caps; old veterans are clasping each other's hands and recalling by-gone days; grave professors grow ruddy and boyish...
...account for an occasional athletic defeat. The steady increase in the number of lockers in use, until now it has reached a requirement of fifty beyond the limit, is an answer to this criticism of Harvard. But it does seem extraordinary that when so many men are daily thrown into athletic competition, there is not aroused such an emulation that there is no possibility of success against the crimson in any branch of athletics. It is a burning shame that when Harvard might so easily hold the field unrivalled, she is forced to make such desperate efforts to maintain herself...
...well for the over-confident undergraduate to remember that very likely his conversation is not so instructive or intertaining to his favored professor that the latter can afford to give up all his time to the fathoming of the occult depth of that conversation which is thrown so lavishly both upon his working and his leisure hours...
...possession. A good pass by Fletcher enables Porter to make a touchdown, from which Jones kicks a goal. Technology now works the ball toward the middle of the field, but a good run by Butler carries it in close proximity to the Technology goal line. Here Butler is thrown, and for a moment he cannot rise, as the wind has been knocked out of him. Play is resumed and Butler secures a touchdown, from which a goal is kicked. The ball is again brought out to the centre of the field, and aided by bad fumbles by Harvard's half...
...together with many group tableaux. It is proposed in the present case to prepare special features to be transported on trucks, and that the endeavor may be successful all are invited to contribute their time, money, and - brains. If the student body could once appreciate the mass of work thrown upon the shoulders of their committee, there is little doubt but that many men would volunteer to aid in the work. What is wished is, that the university shall feel pledged to the unequivocal success of the entire demonstration. If this feeling of personal interest is once aroused, there will...