Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...TIME 11.30 P.M. The Black Maria drives swiftly through Bowdoin Square...
...Freshman Eleven played their first game of the season, against Phillips Exeter Academy, October 18. Exeter won the toss, and Hooker kicked off well; Cabot soon got the ball, and the Freshmen kept it for some time in close proximity to Exeter's goal; the home team, however, by fine rushing and passing, after a hard struggle, succeeded in getting a touch-down, the ball having struck a tree and bounded back into an Exeter man's hands; time was then called...
...Documentary Chinese will go far towards supplying his place. A knowledge of Chinese sufficient for business purposes may be acquired in two, or at most, three years; and one of the subscribers to our professorship acquired it in six months. To obtain a mastery of the language a long time would be required. A student might spend the four years of his college course entirely upon Chinese, and yet have all his time occupied...
...sphere. Moriarty, for the Hod-lifters, amid cries of the crowd of, "Are you there, Moriarty?" drove a liner back to the Borsair, who neatly caught it - between the eyes; notwithstanding the sudden shock, he deftly hurled the red globe to Cunners, on first base, in time to put Moriarty out. Amid the cries of the populace of, "No, you're not there, Moriarty," he returned home, a sadder and a wiser man; taught a lesson which, alas! many of us have learned, that the Borsair is by no means easy to get along with. The next man was pitched...
Harvard's first men, Everlie and Lightweight, retired in quick succession, and all eyes were turned on Blister, who, with swelling chest, wielded the ponderous ash. Cunners swore it was as exciting as the time he sold the little dog to Mrs. G. Our hero, having soared the air in vain once, knocked a daisy-cutter to C. F., and reached first in safety; Bones rung in a two-baser; Cunners stole his base on three strikes; and Oranges, with a three-baser, brought all his "friends" home. Here the Harvards' success ended; the Borsair failed to make anything, (mirabile...