Word: sawed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Captain Flanders and Parrott saw the Harvard crew row Monday. They have been unwell since. [News...
...ready to take the offensive. He made a plan and on the next day moved forward. His attack was a wheeling movement to turn Hood's left while he kept his right and centre busy in front. Gallant charges captured some of the enemy's works, and before Hood saw what was the real danger, it was too late. Simultaneous charges break his line and capture many men, and by evening his army was in full and disorderly retreat. Thomas followed up the advantage till dark and then pressed his army forward for a renewed attack on the 16th. Hood...
...investigate the system of rowing observed by the college men there. I remained there long enough to gain a thorough knowledge of the art. I can assure you that I had not been at Oxford or Cambridge long before I appreciated the superiority of the English method. I saw at once that my previous knowledge of rowing amounted to nothing. It was all-wrong, and I at once set to work to master the proper system...
...special chartered train, having, at the end, paid squarely for their spree. But while this bright and clever set of fellows were enjoying the fun, the hapless freshmen were in disappear. When the train at 9 did not bring them any signs of their long-expected supper they saw clearly that all was not right. A few went to Tremansburg, but could do nothing, so they had all their pains for nothing. Most of them took the joke for what it was worth and made the best of their unhappy situation...
...should be the case than that a set form of words should be adopted. Of course several concessions had to be made, and among them was one of the points which was especially hard to Harvard, namely, the prohibition against playing with other than college associations. The Harvard delegate saw its disadvantage, but there was apparently no way to obviate it, as the very facilities which Harvard enjoyed, as for instance, its proximity to good, unobjectionable base-ball competitors had driven other colleges, in their endeavor to get even, to engage with the most pernicious form of professionalism, caused...