Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...from each individual is not large: no class need claim the honor of having given more than another, and surely no class wishes to be left out of the inscription. We shall all leave a fitting reminder of Harvard's prowess in the ball-field of which we may well be proud...
...thought I, "what shall it be? the Nation would look well, but that's dull; Goethe is all the rage, but Dante - ah! it shall be Dante. Bring me the biggest translation of Dante in the Library; my eyes are weak...
...reads an account of the game, and notices that during the first-half, with the wind blowing hard against us, the score stood one touch-down to nothing, in our favor. We cannot too highly praise the fine runs made by many of the Princeton team, as well as some very pretty ball-passing, and we should have nothing to complain of in their treatment of us, were it not for the aggravating delay occasioned in the last twenty minutes of the game by their frequent "rouges," - a perfectly legitimate, though a not very frank manner of playing. The superiority...
...have on our table a large number of college magazines: the Virginia University Magazine, the Hamilton Literary Monthly, the Bates Student, the Yale Literary Magazine, the Nassau Literary Magazine, the Cornell Review, the Parker Quarterly, and the Lafayette College Journal. The Review is interesting, and well edited. The oration on "The Speeches of Mark Antony and Brutus in Shakespeare" is better suited for delivery; in reading it the style is too interjectional, and, if we may be allowed the expression, too jerky. The article on Wordsworth shows thought, and the reasoning is good, but unfortunately the writer, in quoting...
...toss was won by Princeton, and the game promptly began at half-past two. A heavy wind was blowing against our team. For some time the ball was kept in the centre, until a fine run by Houston, and another by Bacon, brought it well up to Princeton's goal. After some sharp playing on both sides, the ball was passed to Holmes, who, by a fine rush, secured the first touch-down for Harvard. Captain Cushing attempted to kick it over the goal, but failed, amidst shouts of joy by the supporters of Princeton. Soon after, the referee called...