Word: gameness
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...Cricket Eleven played a very fine game last Saturday, on the East Cambridge grounds, with the Mayflowers of Boston...
...these streams at the rate of a barrel a day almost; in fact, they are considered a nuisance, as they disturb the salmon fishing. The salmon themselves vary from nine to fifty pounds, the average being about fourteen pounds. The woods in this region are singularly destitute of game; but reindeer and bears are sometimes seen. One great discomfort are the flies, which one can only escape by anointing the face and wearing gloves; although some keep them off by smoking all day. Salmon fishing is to a certain degree deteriorating on account of the advance of saw-mills...
...second game of foot-ball between the McGill and Harvard Tens last Friday was awaited with the greatest impatience, not to say anxiety, by every one in College. The game on Thursday had been a disappointment to all who saw it, for the Canadians, from ignorance of the Harvard rules, had failed utterly in resisting the Harvard Ten, who won the three goals so easily that the McGill players seemed standing in the field merely to be spectators of their opponents' excellent kicking. But on Friday, when the game was to be played according to the McGill, or rather Rugby...
After a half-hour past the time appointed for the beginning of the game, the McGill men, dressed in the English foot-ball suit, straggled into the field, and, after a few minutes, were followed by a shabby-looking set of men, who turned out to be the Harvard Ten. As it happened, the dilapidated appearance of the Harvard players was quite a boon to the lookers-on, for if they had been respectably clad in a uniform of some kind it might have been quite impossible to distinguish between the two sides; but, as it was, one merely...
...touch-down, although several times it was barely lost; but the last half-hour was the most exciting of all. Both sides were evidently doing their best, though several of the McGill men already showed signs of the rough usage they had received in the first part of the game. The end of the half-hour came at last, and the game was drawn...