Word: three
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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First, I can tell you the names of all the men who have been on the Team, Nine, or Crew, for the last three years, with a running commentary on each one; very valuable information, I assure you, sir, as you would find, if you took a girl out to see a base ball or football match...
...team; but the very first Harvard man I struck had the impudence to laugh in my face, and ask me "how I had the cheek to ask for odds when our team had beaten Columbia thirteen goals and six touch-downs to nothing, while Harvard had only beaten her three goals and two touch-downs." Of course I could not talk with a man who argued in such a pig-headed, unreasonable way; so I merely said nothing, but passed on to the next crowd, only to meet with the same ungentlemanly reception. I finally induced a crowd of Freshmen...
...difficulties, and it is hoped that the instructor will be able to adopt one or the other. An improvement could also be made on the present mode of supplying one's self with water for washing paint-brushes. Instead of letting each one bring a glass of water up three flights of stairs, a pail of water should be kept in the room. Aside from the inconvenience, it is almost impossible to keep from spilling the water on the staircase and floor. Unless the authorities wish to have these painted, they will see that water and a slop...
...seasons three, at Mount Desert...
...writer of the letter to the Advocate makes a miscalculation of three weeks and a half in the exact time during which a training table need be kept for the Freshman race, as it was seven weeks and a half from the class races to the Columbia race. It is not impossible, too, that a training table might be dispensed with for a part of the time before the class races if there were to be no outside race; but, even if it were not, the expense beyond the class race for keeping up the crew would be $300 while...