Word: train
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...meeting but one vote was challenged, - that of a man who was an excellent oar, and who had trained faithfully up to that time, but who had expressed a doubt as to his ability to train through the year...
...will be found on another page, and it will be seen that in two events our best previous records were surpassed. The sports were, in the main, creditable, but there were not as many new contestants drawn out as could have been wished. To be sure, the time for training in the autumn is short, and the greater attractions of football and rowing take away some men's attention from the Athletic meetings; but this cannot wholly explain the poor exhibition made by some of the contestants. When we take into consideration the number of men in the University...
HARVARD FRESHMEN VS. ST. MARK'S.THE game began at 2.15 P. M., with Harvard at the bat. After seven innings were played, the game was called at 4.30 P. M., as by a previous agreement between the two captains, to enable the visitors to catch the last train from Southborough for Boston. As St. Mark's was ahead at this point, the Freshmen were naturally dissatisfied. St. Mark's courteously consented to go on with the game, but decided among themselves to stop at the end of the next half, whatever the result, being determined to cling to the original...
...present divided between the Senior and Junior crews, who, as far as can be judged, are very evenly matched. The Sophomores are organizing an eight, to be sure, and expect to take part in the contest; but they were so unlucky in the spring, and have begun to train so late, that they will have hard work to keep up with '80 and '81. The Freshmen, of course, are too inexperienced to take part in the race on the 25th...
...never a maid in this beautiful train...