Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...referee from them. If this is the case, let us by all means have graduates of Yale, Harvard or Princeton for our judges, rather than take a man who is at the time a regular member of one of the competing league elevens. Private animosity is more likely to crop out in the latter than in the former case...
...Again, the time of beginning the games should be fixed, and no contest be allowed to begin after a stated time before sunset. The game in and around Boston was never more popular than now, nor was there ever more interest taken, and the result will be a fine crop of new players. Accidents have been but few, and the spirit of the game has been such as might well be emulated by stronger elevens. Next season New England will have the present strong inter collegiate eleven, besides the Tufts Williams League, and one in which Technology. Trinity and other...
...more resemblance to a bog than to a foot-ball ground. Along the base lines of the old diamond ran turbulent little rivers, continually replenished by the driving rain. On each side of the field were clusters of umbrellas that seemed to have sprung into existence like a mushroom crop...
...grass, and only by considerable care on the part of all, by refraining from walking or running across the grass plots, can the yard be made to have its usual beautiful appearance. The college horse, famed in antiquity, depends in a large measure, on the amount of the grass crop. Deprive him of his scanty meal of have from the yard, and who will draw the snow-plow, that paragon of our college appliances, next winter...
...crop of extraordinary translations from respectable old classical authors, as gleaned from our exchanges, says the Collegian, is unusually prolific this year. Some of them are startling in their originality and ingenuity, others are completely bewildering in the wild luxuriance of imagination which they betoken on the part of the translator. For instance, Virgil is made to say in "Impositi rogis juvenes ante ora parentum," "And the boys were imposed upon by the rogues in the very teeth of their parents." Another from the same source, "Hunc Polydorum auri," "A hunk of gold belonging to Polydorus." Horace fares little better...