Word: badger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...member of '84 at Yale is said to possess a terrier famous for rat-hunting, as well as a pet badger. The following highly dramatic account of their actions appears in a prominent place in a New York daily. The story is very edifying. The fable of the badger reads: "The badger escaped from its owner one morning, and took refuge in the catch-basin to a sewer, corner of State and Chapel streets, and the police and general public were much interested in effecting the capture of the animal. Crowds of men and boys gathered at the sewer entrance...
BATTING ORDER.Yale - Platt, 3 b.; Camp, s. s.; S. Hopkins, 1 b.; Badger, 2 b.; Smith, c. f.; Wilcox, r. f.; Jones, p.; Hubbard, c.; H. Hopkins...
...yards' dash, B. Cumming, 0.11 3/4; half-mile run, G. W. Lay, 2.23 1/2; running high jump, C. K. Billings, 5 feet; 220 yards' dash, Barclay Johnson, 0.27 1/2; throwing hammer, C. A. Wight, 57 feet 5 inches. The officers were Theodore Cuyler, executive committee; W. A. Badger and H. B. Platt, judges; W. B. Hill, referee...
...Badger complains because there are not more girls in the Wisconsin State University...
...Sound and have not lost a day for some time. Storrs went out for the first time last Tuesday, and made his presence felt in the boat. He will not begin regular training till the first of May. There are now twenty men training for the nine, but Captain Badger will select from these at the end of the week thirteen who will continue training while the others will cease, except those who will comprise the "consolidated." The men practice in two squads, one under Captain Badger and the other under Mr. Platt, 3d base of the University. The schedule...