Word: wide
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which supplies excellent facilities for boating practice, has seen its best days. The inter-class races as a rule are spiritless contests in which the participants are the only ones very much interested. Boating has been on a decline, and men have gotten their exercise from other sources. The wide popularity of tennis has taken many good men who might have had their exercise on the water. The crew men and those within the aquatic circle sorely regret this state of affairs. Strong efforts to revive boating interest will be made. Just what direction these efforts will take...
...Buckingham, Ph. D., of Newton, died at his residence last Friday, May 29th. Mr. Buckingham was born in Boston in December, 1829, was educated at the Boston Latin School under the instruction of Epes S. Dixwell, and graduated at Harvard College in 1857. He was a man of wide attainments in literary and classical lore. At the time of his decease he was and had been for several years a teacher in the English High School in Boston, in the department of French literature. He was also a prominent member of the visiting committee of our college on languages...
...sent it flying back with well directed long throws, while their Princeton opponents thwacked ineffectually at their arms and sticks. The Harvard homes had several good chances to score, as they also got the ball away from the Princeton men, but they failed to make goals, either shooting wide or making some slip which allowed the other side to get back the ball. After twenty-nine minutes had been played out the two Harvard defence men hesitated at a critical moment, and Gamble, the Princeton captain rushed in, secured the ball and tipped it to Blakemore, who shot it between...
...society" teams-nor of the two nines of Memorial Hall wait ers. This state of affairs must be gratifying enough to the faculty, whose aim it is to get as many students as possible to take regular exercise. Aside from the faculty view of the situation, however, this wide-spread awakening in the base-ball interest, must re-act favorably upon the prospects of the sport next year...
...inquisition officer can cause us much trouble. The clothes-bag, for instance, is probably doing duty as pantry and wine-cellar, and may contain a pipe or a pack of cards. For tunately, the inspecting officers remember the days of their youth, and give suspicious receptacles a wide berth...