Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...hear something of the sentiment at Princeton concerning Yale's methods of playing foot-ball. The Courant in its last number seems to claim that Yale, instead of having done incalculable injury to the manly sport, has "almost entirely developed" "the present science of play." Such statements certainly rob Princeton as well as Harvard of due praise. Yale has done the game quite as much harm as she boasts she has done it good. She has made it a dangerous game; she, chiefly, has made umpires as well as referees necessary, and she has caused the public, in great part...
...Graves prize essays for the senior class this year are : "The American Judiciary and its Dangers," "The Imperfections of the Jury System," "Modern Inventions as Related to Human Happiness," "The Influence of Physical Conditions on Moral Character," "Athens in the Time of Pericles," "The University of Oxford," "Author of 'Rob and His Friends,' " "John Quincy Adams," "Partisan History," "Howells as a Critic of American Life," "The Unrest of the Age as Expressed in its Poetry...
...Kendall, the physician who was shot while preparing to rob a grave at Onondaga Hill, N. Y., Thursday night, died last night...
...bold attempt was made yesterday by a woman in New York to rob a Cincinnati gentleman of $7,700. His promptly noticing the absence of his pocket-book in its usual place led to her immediate arrest...