Word: creep
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...away from Cambridge materially interrupt the serious work of the students. Those who attend them are excessively excited, and are peculiarly exposed to the temptations of a great city. The influence is mischievous and distinctly unfavorable to regular work. The desire for victory is so strong that professional methods creep in, and disputes and charges of trickery constantly occur. Rowing, baseball, cricket, and lacrosse are reasonably safe, but football is extremely dangerous, while sparring is in many cases an exhibition of brute force, rather than a contest of skill. The main work of a student is to get an education...
...class, we believe, though 60 is a large number. How we did enjoy it; but how much more we should have enjoyed it if we could have had occasional intermissions of five minutes in which to rest our tired tongue. The time sped rapidly, and we soon saw darkness creep around us. We took tea at Stone Hall, in a room with twenty girls governed by matrons. They have a pleasant little custom at Wellesley meals. All are obliged to stand until every one has arrived, when there is a sudden and systematic pulling out of chairs, and then...
...crying "Hou, Hou!" A 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...
...unexpected, as the fine playing and long practice of the Longwoods has resulted in placing them at the head of the cricket teams in this State. The Longwoods went to the bat with Clark and Biddle bowling for Harvard. After a little preliminary skirmishing the score gradually commenced to creep up, although the magnificent bowling of Clark proved embarrassing to all opponents, with the exception of Joues and Wright. The Longwoods left the bat with eighty-three runs to their credit, and their places were taken by the Harvards, who in spite of the fine bowling of Phillips and Dutton...
...hundred students all thirsting for knowledge, eating roast beef at the same time. There is a gallery at one end of the hall for carious strangers to survey the wondrous plan; but we got so hungry with watching these youngsters that we did not remain long. Possibly the stealthy creep of prejudice over our judgments may have been the cause of our verdict; but we certainly arrived at the conclusion that our English boys at "Trinity" and "Jesus," in the fenlands of the old country, would, at least in physical appearance, lose nothing alongside those of Harvard College...