Word: bird
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bird, Captain of the Princeton Foot Ball team for this year, has been elected Master of Geremomes for Commencement...
...found the striker out with both hands on his knees, ready for the ball which was to come from an invisible server. Such accidents are common. I once tried to take a horse and sulky, but got only the horse's nose. It is just like shooting at birds on the wing; the novice is most likely to shoot ahead and so either misses the bird altogether or hits it in the head and kills it at once...
MATCH B. 10 birds. First, Austin '86, *Allen '86, *Palmer '87, eight: second Bird '86, Clarke '86, six: third, McCook '85, Slocum '86, Chase '88 Love '88, five: fourth, Belmont '86, Bradley '86, four...
SPECIAL MATCH. 5 birds. First, Bradley '85, Slocum '86, five: second, McCook '86, Bird '86, Belmont '86, three
...added to the series on "The Lakes of Upper Italy." A sketch by Francis Coppee, and an article by Lathrop on "Combination Novels," are interesting reading. In addition to this there are a valuable considerations of "Canada and the British Connection," by Edward Stanwood, and a paper on birds and bird life. The poetry, and the department of the Contributors' Club, are fully up to the standard...