Word: bird
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After fine kicking on both sides, the ball, from a kick by Moffat, was well stopped by a Wesleyan rusher, and the ball was had down too near our goal for comfort, but a fine run by Bird restored it to its proper place. Again there was kicking, very fine on both sides, Wesleyan also passing the ball with great judgment and accuracy, Saxe's punts for Wesleyan and Moffat's for Princeton being especially good. Then followed a good run by Lamar from a pass by Moffat, a run by Baker, and a fine catch by Belknap...
...Soon after the ball was well stopped by Belknap, secured by Princeton, and in an instant Moffat had kicked another goal. The kick-off was stopped by our rushers. Belknap seized the ball and rushed down the field. When tackled, after a good run, he passed the ball to Bird, who got a little further and then was downed very near Wesleyan's lines. The ball was then thrown to Moffat, who made a pretty run and secured a touchdown. From this the ball was punted out to Kimball, but so wildly that he could not get it. Travers, however...
...Princeton team will probably be composed of the following men: Rushers, Belknap, Harris, Harlan, Bird, Del Camp, Wanamaker and Travers; quarter back, Kimball; half backs, Baker and Lamar; back, Moffatt...
...There is not that tendency toward study here which exists in the East and in the West. The young women who would have attended the lectures at Columbia, it is to be feared would have been led there by mixed motives. It would not have been the owl, the bird of Minerva, which would have led them on, but a lark. Certainly they are offered the privilege of a Harvard annex (without, however, the excellent offices of Miss Ticknor to arrange matters), but the masses have not jumped to avail themselves of it.-[N. Y. letter to Traveller...
...following is a corrected list of the 2nd ten of the Institute of 1770: Adams, Parker, Barnes, Locke, Winthrop, Wilson, Rathbone, Phillips, Bird and Hearst...