Word: boasting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Tearing on in spite of Eli's boast...
Tearing on in spit of Eli's boast...
...Indian game, and an average of almost twenty-three cuts on the day of the Dartmouth game. In one course, and not the largest course in College by any means, no less than eighty men cut before the Dartmouth game. This is no record to boast of from the standpoint of undergraduate zeal in things intellectual and it is to be hoped that a better record will be made this year. The Council is right in its statements and should be supported...
...from a spectator's point of view, but void of excitement, the University baseball team shut out Bates yesterday 4 to 0. Lanigan throughout the game was invincible, and only one man reached second, which was the result of an error. Three scattered hits were all that Bates could boast of at the bat, and two of those were absolutely useless, as Lanigan caught both men off first by quick throws to Briggs...
...Tres Ramillets," a modern Spanish comedy by Breton de los Herreros, was the first play given by the Spanish club two years ago. The plot, laid in Madrid, is based on the amusing complications which follow Don Narciso's boast of his popularity with the ladies. To prove this, Narciso arranges with Juana, a flower girl, to bring three bouquets, from Rosa, Violante, and Jacinta, respectively. Ramon, suspecting that all is net right, after the three bouquets have appeared, sends notes by Juana, while Narciso is out of the room, urging three of his friends in the neighborhood to come...