Word: crawled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...championship series is awarded to Yale with only one game to its credit, a dangerous precedent is established at once. Now Yale freshmen always have an independent way of acting with our freshmen that is truly original: if they fear a defeat on account of a weak team, they "crawl" as their freshman eleven did last fall, or their '87 nine did a year ago; if they have an unusually strong team, they win one game and then in a calm way refuse to play any more games because they have the series "cold," as they claim...
...little further on we came to the Museum. The Museum is a little abstract. That is, it is rather a proposal than a fact. P. T. Barnum gave $50,000 to found a Museum, and offered to stock it with various creatures that creep, and more that crawl. It is even rumored that Jumbo is to find his last rest within the classic shades of the "terminal morraine." Tufts has not indulged in the luxury of an "Annex," but it has a pond. And it has a clay pit where the crew can practice throwing stones. But the unique character...
...glad to notice that the Yale Record takes their freshman eleven to task for their conduct in "crawling" from the foot ball match with Harvard. The Record in closing its editorial says: "There are more euphonious terms than 'crawl,' but none more expressive," and then concludes by adding: "Whatever may be said as to the wisdom of the captain, the chief fault lies, without doubt, with those men who did not care enough for the athletic honor of their college to forego the little pleasure of which an early return would deprive them. The longer they stay at Yale...
...Yale freshmen have decided (?) that they will not play Harvard, '87 unless the game is played at New Haven on May 24th. Yale men are much dissatisfied with the freshman nine. Is it a "crawl...
...Dartmouth bitter complaint is made of the system of excuses for cuts. "If a student is too ill to attend recitation," wails the Dartmouth, "he must crawl up (or get a friend to carry him on a shutter) and inform the professor of the fact, and obtain permission to crawl back...