Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Whatever is done to give Yale '90 a race, it is to be hoped the old time Harvard-Columbia alliance will not be split to admit her again, and it must be remembered that Yale was admitted last year more from foolish courtesy than from real desire or enthusiasm...
...with torpedoes? Is a tin horn an unvarying accompaniment to extreme gratification? The truth is that all these puerilities gain their only attraction when under prohibition. There is some exhilaration in being chased from an inceptive conflagration by an officious proctor; but there is nothing so mournful as to split one's lungs in starting a blaze which no one cares to prevent, in setting off cannon-crackers alone and unobserved, or in blowing long and loudly on a tin horn merely for one's own recreation. We would remind the Yale faculty as well as our own august body...
Yesterday afternoon Harvard defeated Brown in an exhibition game at Providence by a score of 17 to 3. The game was very uninteresting after the third inning. Clarke split his finger at the beginning of the fourth, and had to retire. Harvard played a very strong game, both at the bat and in the field. The features of the game were the heavy hitting of Wiestling and Smith, and the work of both Harvard batteries. The score...
...Holmes Field before an audience of about 300 spectators. Harvard defeated Amherst by a score of 10 to 0. It was cold and damp, and the game was too one sided to be very interesting, though Harvard's heavy hitting called out a few cheers. Allen had his finger split in the fourth inning and had to retire, and the change battery, Smith and Henshaw, came...
...have received from Rutger's College two copies of the tri-weekly of that college. It seems that there has been a split on the editorial board, and the dissenters have published a paper similar to the regular issue, with the same advertisements and the same board of editors on the first page. This freak of journalism is very amusing...