Word: high
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...yesterday's game shows two things; first, that the eleven does not realize that the date of the Yale game is near; and, second, that the men on the team have not trained conscientiously. The eleven has been carefully coached since the season opened, but such an exhibition of high tackling and fumbling is not often seen...
...Meeting on Saturday, February 15, 1890, in Mechanics' Hall, Huntington Avenue, Boston, commencing at 8 p. m. promptly. Following are the events: 50 yards run, 1 mile run, 440 yards run, 880 ards run, 220 yards run over 2 feet 6 inch hurdles, 1 mile walk, pole vault, running high jump, putting 16 1b. shot, 220 yards run, throwing 56 1b. weight, tug-of-war of 650 pounds, 4 men, 2 substitutes allowed; no contest unless two teams enter. The course will be a board track of about 13 laps to the mile. Rules of the Amateur Athletic Union will...
...Wilson and his supporters have earned a high and well deserved re putation for their work in this comedy, Last night the stage effects were excellent and the costumes were especially effective and true to the scenes which they represented. The chorus was strong, as usual. The scars of the evening were of course Mr. Wilson himself who made some capital hits and played his part to perfection, and Marie Jansen whose fascinating manner took extremely well with the audience. The story of the "Oolah" itself is amusing and well worked up in every detail...
Corbett, captain of the Cambridge High school eleven, will enter Harvard next fall...
...Professor Sheldon delivered the second lecture in the course by German instructors in Sever 11, yesterday afternoon on the Mediaeval Poetry of Germany. He said that he proposed to give a general idea of German poetry from the classic period to the middle ages. The language of the middle high German, he said, has undergone a considerable change owing to the period of sterility previous to the close of the high German period. The literature of the mediaeval period is almost wholly in vers. Its subjects, which are of a national, popular and lyric character, originated in songs celebrating...