Word: unbroken
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cricket eleven last year had without doubt the most successful season in the history of cricket at Harvard. The team had for its backbone Scattergood and Douglass Adams besides several other old Harverford men and, as a consequence, had an unbroken record of victories. Not only were there good cricketers here, but the interest in the game was greatly increased and new material was abundant. It looked as if cricket had gained a lasting foothold at Harvard...
...Saturday evening at the club rooms, 18 Boylston place. President A. H. Soden, in the name of the club, presented him with a handsome silver medal as a souvenir of his success and of the occasion. The medal bears the inscription "To Elmer E. Southard, who has an unbroken record in three intercollegiate contests." Southard replied briefly, thanking the donors. F. E. Thayer '99, president of the Harvard Chess Club, also spoke...
...Boston Chess Club is to give a reception to Mr. Elmer E. Southard 1G., in recognition of his brilliant and unbroken record of games won in the Intercollegiate Chess Tournaments. The reception will be held in the club rooms, 18 Boylston place, Boston, on Saturday evening, January 22, at 8 o'clock...
...time for the intercollegiate and junior tournaments draws near, the important question arises whether the University will be able to maintain its unbroken record of victories. Two of the three men who composed last year's intercollegiate team have graduated, and, according to the rules, none of the team which won the junior tournament last year is eligible for that contest again. It is evident then that any fencer in the University, whether a member of the Fencing Club or not, has an excellent chance to make one of the teams this year. As a large number of candidates...
...clear then that the flower exercises are an old and unbroken tradition, and that they have existed in their present form for upwards of thirty years. To substitute artificial ceremonies for the living custom-the scramble for the flowers, is hardly a reasonable proposition. A tradition is the slow product of time and tendencies, and is only susceptible of very gradual change or modification. Once rudely disturbed from without and its very essence is gone. Briefly, you can not take away the flowers and the scrimmage on Class Day without destroying the tradition. You may still have exercises there...