Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hundred students, all of whom are anxious to represent their college in athletic contests, should be able to put forward a base-ball nine that wins every game it plays, a football team that is only beaten by Yale, and a boat crew that leaves even Yale in its wake...
...daily. But all this snow that now covers Holmes and the college yard generally brings forebodings to the mind of the Harvard student. Recognizing the fickleness of the weather clerk for the regions about Cambridge he knows not what a day may bring upon him, and is ready to wake any morning and find Holmes a beautiful sparkling lake, and the yard a system of ponds and rivers, with a good degree of certainty that still another day will change the former into a magnificent skating surface, and the latter into a conglomeration of slipperyness and sawdust...
...fill the boat last year, there can be little doubt of a successful sophomore crew, provided only the men who tried then will have the courage to come forward now. By this early beginning of work it looks as though it was '88's ambition to follow in the wake of the illustrious sophomore crew which preceded her, and crown the record of their second year in college with a well earned victory over seniors, juniors and freshmen...
...goal. After several futile attempts Fletcher succeeded in getting the ball across the line. From this touch-down Peabody kicked a goal. From this point till time was called the ball stayed down in '87's half of the field. At this point the '86 rushers began to wake up, and they began to play in great shape, stopping every attempt of the half-backs to run or kick. Good rushes by Fiske and Burnett carried the ball down close to '87's goal. The seniors tried to force the ball over the line by means of first...
...have had. The Bicycle Club supports a president, captain, and sub-captain, and I fail to see why some one of these officers should not have called a run long before this. The opinion seems to prevail among members of the club, that if the management does not wake up this spring, the death of the Bicycle Club will be recorded next year...