Word: topped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...geological and scientific collections, besides laboratories and other rooms. The loss will probably be over $200,000, and there is but $40,000 of insurance. Several students risked their lives to save the various collections, and it is said that some of them were compelled to jump from the top windows to escape a fiery death...
...minor and soothing noises." We thank Snodkins for his courtesy; rise, bid him adieu, and leave the room just in time to hear a party of six or eight go tearing through the hall, and down the stairs, four steps at a time, yelling at the top of their lungs. "Stop," says Snodkins, thrusting his head out of the door, "that's the worst kind of all; a lot of sophomores going to the theatre...
...cool kicking" is allowed; no player "up," that is to say, may kick the ball hard; he must "run it down," or "dribble it," as the phrase goes elsewhere than at Eton, keeping it as much between his feet as possible. To see a skilled player do this at top speed, winding in and out among his opponents, with the ball never more than a foot or two away from him, is a pretty sight, and it is prettier still to watch him "running it down the line" with all the players crowding round him on the watch...
...from a down to Lamar, who was standing far at one side was not anticipated in time by Harvard. Our men were literally caught napping, and Lamar was over the line and made a touchdown before he could be stopped. Hodge kicked a goal, the ball just grazing the top of the bar as it went over...
...recitation halls or Memorial they get enough exercise between their rooms and these buildings. It may be that they room up four or five flights of stairs in the dormitories and argue that these stairs are their gymnasium, their base ball, and their tennis. Indeed a man at the top of Weld or Matthews is almost excusable for thus arguing. But still such little fits of exercise, that may be gotten, say between Holyoke and Sever, amount to almost nothing. They are mere apologies for exercise, and are about as satisfactory as a small piece of bread and butter...