Word: topped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...John Harvard statue were placed in position on the Delta. Much interest was shown by the students, who formed groups around the workmen until the bronze figure was finally lowered into place. The base is very simple, being nearly a cube in shape, but tapering slightly, so that the top is smaller than the bottom. On the front is the simple inscription cut into the stone...
...have been defeated regularly in foot ball-as a matter of course-year after year, and last fall we underwent the same experience. In lacrosse we were soundly beaten by both Princeton and Yale, and took our place at the bottom of the list instead of at the top. On the Thames, our crews which began the year under as favorable suspicious as ever attended a crew, went to pieces at New London, barely won a race from Columbia's wretched crew and were beaten by Yale, Everyone knows how Yale in spite of several new men in the boat...
...prizes to be given at the Harvard Bicycle Club meet consist of gold and silver medals, after the form of the club monogram, suspended from a top...
Spencer's right was skillfully stopped by Sampson, who got onto his opponent's nob with his one-two. In the second attempt Sampson's right was more successful then Spencer's had been, for he caught him a clipper on the ivory-box, Paul retaliating on the top of Phil's brain-pan with his Dexter fin. [Clipper...
...foretold by the changes, but the observations are not yet full enough to lead to any decided statements. Observations are also being made with a view to determining what influence altitude has to do on the electric charge of the air, and instruments have already been placed on the top of the new physical laboratory. It is a work of great delicacy, and some time must necessarily elapse before the great mass of results can be worked up. It seems, though, to be the coming thing for indicating the changes in the weather. It has already given good evidence...