Word: directed
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...people attracted from out of town was less than 200, and the New Londoners themselves very generally ignored the show. Exactly 162 tickets were sold to the grand stand, which was constructed at a cost of $1,200, and had a seating capacity for 3,000 people. The direct money loss of the managers is known to have exceeded $500, and is believed by them to have been nearer $800. Even had the attendance of spectators been large enough to make the receipts exceed the expenses by $1,000, the managers would have been opposed to undertaking another Freshman race...
...disabling of its captain early in the year. We were glad to notice that the game of Saturday was an improvement on the Yale game last year, both in the brutality in the hostile eleven and in the disposition to quarrel, and we hope that this spirit may direct our future contests with Yale. With a record of six games played and only two defeats, we think the Football Team need not be discouraged, but may look forward to a time when Harvard shall again be champion of the country, as she is now of Canada...
...know how much the class races were going to amount to, as in that year they were rowed for the first time for a long while. When the Crimson said that a Freshman race clashes with the interests of the 'Varsity, it did not refer simply to such a direct act as refusing to give up a Freshman oar to be a substitute on the 'Varsity; the feeling that prompted that refusal is of far greater importance than the act itself; it indicates a division of interest and purpose which is in great measure the cause of our many recent...
...vision! Beautiful light brown hair, very dark brown eyes, perfect features, and a figure that would have thrown all the Venuses of Milo in the shade. My ideal was realized, for that she was a country girl, the basket which she carried, containing an apple and a sandwich, bore direct testimony. I noted all these points in a twinkling of an eye, for two years in a class like '82 develops one's eye for female beauty amazingly. My heart throbbed as she gazed at me in a pensive manner and sighed again. I resolved to storm the fort...
...umpire, on appeal from either party before the toss for choice, may direct the players to change sides at the end of every game, if in his opinion either side have a distinct advantage, owing to the sun, wind, or any accidental cause; but if the appeal be made after a match has begun, the umpire may only direct the players to change sides at the end of every game of the odd and concluding...