Word: cribb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange soil. It is little wonder that these men meet their faculty advisors with almost no idea of what courses, aside from prescribed courses, they wish to take in their first year. For even if the range of choice in the first year is "cabin'd, cribb'd, bound in", yet there is some choice. And aside from this point, the descriptions are so curt and dry that they are really repellent, as Mr. Woodbridge notes. Therefore freshmen naturally hate English A and German A with the feeling that they are mere sheep being lead to the slaughter...
...Provide Artists' Outfits at the Desk. We appreciate the struggling efforts of our Cesares and Colliers and Bud Fishers on the margins of pages and on fly leaves, but it grieves us to see their efforts so "cabin'd, cribb'd, confined". Why shouldn't we furnish such incipient cartoonists with regular drawing books, in the interest of art and freedom...
There are several other prints of interest, one of which is an original drawing of the match between Matthew Houghton and George Shepheard. Cribb vs. Molineaux is a picture of value in showing the interest taken in an early fight. Another good picture is that of John Broughton. It is an excellent example of the type of prize fighter that existed in the 18th century...