Word: long
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University of California has challenged Harvard for a football game to be played in San Francisco on Christmas Day. Owing to the long absence of the team from College which such a trip would necessitate, it has been considered advisable to decline the challenge...
Richness of local color characterizes the stories in the current number of the Advocate, which differs from the typical number in that it omits the usual long "leading" piece. It contains, instead, expanded daily themes, which, though they possess no literary merit, are interesting to undergraduates. In a story called "Pierre's Mountains," Richard Edwards '00 sketches the character of a Swiss boy and narrates his struggles to overcome love for home in order to follow attractions in Paris. Throughout the narrative, the writer has skillfully blended description and exposition. "At the Edge of the Moor," by Apthorp Gould Fuller...
With the Brown game only two days distant, the practice yesterday consisted of two hard halves against the second eleven, twenty and ten minutes long respectively. Although the defense was strong enough to hold the second for downs as often as the latter got the ball, the team work on the offensive was somewhat ragged. Not only were the men very careless about getting off before the ball, but also four times in the course of the practice the 'Varsity was penalized for offside play. The most encouraging feature of the practice was the brilliant playing of the tackles. Although...
Yesterday's matches were the most interesting that have as yet been played. In the first set of the Roche-Thomas match, Thomas frequently passed Roche by his long hard driving and clever back work. He was not able to keep up his game, however, and soon became erratic, with the result that Roche won easily in the second and third sets. Ward and Davis won the match with Lang and Bowdoin in two rather one-sided sets in which there was not much opportunity for scientific playing, the points being usually settled in a few strokes. The next match...
Doubles -- Rockwell and Bidwell vs. Moore and Jones, at 4; Ward and Davis vs. Long and Bowdoin...