Word: wente
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...caligraphy extant, inviting her to a matinee. She revolted at the idea, refused to consider herself sacrificable to his desires, and sent a polite note of refusal. On receiving which he procured a carbine and bowie knife, said that he would not now forge fetters hymeneal with the queen, went to an isolated spot, severed his jugular vein and discharged the contents of his carbine into his abdomen. The debris was removed by the coroner...
Cambridge went first to the bat, and scored a run on a hit, a wild pitch, and an attempted put-out. Harvard retired in order. The visitors scored three runs in the second inning, aided by three bases on balls, a hit, a passed ball, and an error. Harvard again failed to score. A hit and two errors netted Cambridge another run in the third inning, while the crimson was unable to get a man farther than third. The visitors closed their score in the fourth, by scoring a run on a base on balls, aided...
...General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay and first endowed by an educated son of pious London tradespeople. When I had read these Harvard wills I asked myself how closely the college is bound - after 250 years - to the sort of people who established it. I went to the admission books in which the occupations of parents of students are recorded, and found to my great satisfaction that more than a quarter part of its students are to-day sons of tradesmen, shopkeepers, mechanics, salesmen, foremen, laborers and farmers. I found sons of butchers, coopers, grocers and clothworkers...
...GAME.Harvard went first to the bat and scored two runs, on a double by Winslow, a single by Nichols, and an error by Sheppard. Yale brought a man over the plate by a base on balls and a long drive to right field for three bases by Marsh. This closed Yale's score until the ninth inning, when the second and final run was made. Harvard failed to add to her score until the fifth inning, when singles by Beaman, Winslow, Nichols and Edgerly, and two attempted put-outs and a trio of errors resulted in seven runs...
...GREAT RACEhad begun. Both crews caught the water well, though Harvard obtained a slight advantage. For a moment all was still; then, when it was seen that Harvard was going slowly to the front, a roar went up from the spectators on the train that must have been heard at the finish line. Both crews were pulling 40 strokes to the minute, yet at the half-mile stake the Yale men had fallen three lengths to the rear. This distance was covered by Harvard in 2m. 58s.; by Yale in 3m. 12s. Upon entering the second half-mile rough water...