Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...skating has been very fine this week past. Fresh Pond has been patronized by great numbers of skaters, including many college men. Dorchester Bay has also afforded splendid opportunities for skating and ice boating...
...greatest of crews, Oxford; we have filled our library so full of trophies that some have to be rolled up and tucked away for very lack of room. Now, out of all this material is not something and indeed much to come? Thus, with a little new apparatus, splendid work will be done. Mr. Balch, the stroke of last year's winning crew, will be invaluable aid as a leader, because of his experience...
...Harvard in rushing with a rush line of a gross weight even more disproportionate to Harvard's than Yale's, which from the start of the match was crippled by the loss of the most powerful and skilled rusher of it. But the Harvard-Princeton game was certainly a splendid demonstration of what the rushing of a heavy team can do when it is not exactly provided against. The possibilities, however, of the defensive ability of a light team have been indicated by the fact that Princeton's line checked Yale's attempts at rushing with less difficulty than Harvard...
...freshman banjo club is very useful in developing material for the 'Varsity club in after years. The '91 Banjo Club promises to be the best Freshman Banjo Club the college has ever had. It has an abundance of good material and has been doing splendid work. Two concerts have been given already by the club, one at Somerville and one in Tremont Temple in Boston; and considering the short time the club has been organized, its work at these concerts was very fine. A quartette from the club has played at Southboro, assisting the '91 Dramatic Club. Several concerts will...
...Carpenter, Howard and Willard then sang Mr. Carpenter's latest entitled "Der Jungling" -a very pretty air and jodel. Next came a new arrangement of several old drinking songs not on the programme, and finally the piece of the evening-"The Blue Danube Waltz," which was sung in splendid style...