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Word: respectable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the Board of Overseers, yesterday, no measures were taken in respect to the action of the faculty on the athletic question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vote of the Faculty. | 6/14/1888 | See Source »

...just extension of his own privileges. The next and final step is the adoption of the Harvard colors by every Harvard man; and none who are desirous to use this privilege should refrain on purely sentimental grounds, from wearing the black and red blazer. With due respect for our crew and nine, a monogram is all that either organization should claim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/5/1888 | See Source »

...meet to add one more victory or defeat to the records. Yet, notwithstanding the intense rivalry, the jubilation that follows victory and the deep chagrin that follows defeat, the relations between Harvard and Yale continue always cordial. There is behind the firm resolution to win, a feeling of mutual respect and hearty admiration that we think could hardly exist were not the colleges drawn together as they now are. The athletic life which every-where engages lively interest, and which affords endless opportunity for competition, comes surely to the surface, while the intellectual life in which competition is uncertain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/5/1888 | See Source »

...game, which was remark-able for fine work of Bates. After the first inning, in which Harvard went to pieces and made a pure gift of two runs to Princeton, the support accorded Bates was excellent. The field work of both nines was good, Princeton excelling in this respect. The visitors could do nothing with Bates, eleven men striking out and two only reaching first on safe hits. The umpiring of McLean was a trille erratic, his decisions on strikes being somewhat off. On the whole, Princeton suffered the most from his decisions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, 7; Princeton, 2. | 6/4/1888 | See Source »

Toward the end of the match Tailer and Snow played loosely, and seemed discouraged by their adversaries' lead. Lee and Tallant, on the other hand, played a strong, steady game through-out, and Lee's play was especially noticeable in this respect. Snow played the most brilliant game, while Tailor's underhand strokes were very effective, and Lee and Tallant did some good placing. All four men played close to the net and volleyed a great deal. In the second set Tailer and Snow tried lobbing over their opponents' heads with good effect, but in the third most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis. | 6/1/1888 | See Source »

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