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Word: shields (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...five-forward power-play set of MacDonald, Bourbeau, C.J. Young, Peter Ciavaglia and Ted Donato collects two early power-play goals. Goalie Mike Francis is Harvard's shield of defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polishing the Rust: Icemen Capture National Title | 6/8/1889 | See Source »

...gymnasia. It is the work of an inferior artist, however, and is only a fair production. It is executed in Pentelic marble, and, of course, many of the details of the great statue have been omitted. In a second statuette, discovered later, the reliefs on the shield of the great statue are reproduced after a fashion; the statuette as a whole, however, is a very clumsy piece of workmanship, and much inferior to the one first discovered. But even from the meager accounts we have of the statue of Athena Parthenos, we cannot but conclude that it was a magnificent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Wheeler's Sixth Lecture. | 3/5/1889 | See Source »

...made to suffer for the student who if he is maintained now by an artifice system of props, will nevertheless fall as soon as he leaves colleges and is brought in contact with the world. Student life is supposed to be a preparation for the world, not a shield from it, and there can be no better element in this preparation than a feeling of individual responsibility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/9/1889 | See Source »

...maintained his party pledges or whether Free Trade was sent to the earth by a devil to a snare to England and the United States. It is true that Harvard has been always for the best for the country and it is equally true as Mr. Lodge stated, her shield bore these matters and not one of them was a special invitation to either political party. It would hardly be too severe to call it sacrilege to use that grand hymn of Harvard nobility to spur political enthusiasm. Fair Harvard is the inspiration of a wider feeling than campaign semi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 11/6/1888 | See Source »

...alumni of Exeter and Andover in Princeton have offered the faculties of the two academies a very handsome silver shield to be contested for in a series of nine annual debates between representative speakers of the schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/7/1888 | See Source »

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