Word: crows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Second, during the Omaha riots another negro was accused of an attack on a white woman and confined by the military authorities. The case was printed in scare-crow headlines in all our newspaper. In a later edition of the Boston Herald, in small type, at the fag-end of a long article on the riots, the statement was made that the accused had been released-nothing else. Can any fair-minded American believe that this is honest and fair dealing? Why was the world not told in as bold type and as plainly as the accusation was made that...
News that the Athletic authorities of the University have reconsidered the stand which they took last week and have voted to place track on an equal footing with baseball and crow by re-establishing a training table for that sport, is decidedly satisfactory to those who were anxious to see a real handicap removed from a team of proven ability. This reversal of opinion may be attributed in no small degree to efforts of undergraduates, who, feeling keenly that an essential spirit of unity in the team was being seriously endangered, brought the authorities to a realization of the track...
...never thought the mere non-Latinist deserved such a brand. But perhaps it is for the benefit of the public. Peter Barnum said the public liked to be fooled; and we certainly fool the public with our pompous scientific degree. Meanwhile, the initiated know that the yellow crow's-foot indicates "not knowledge of science, but ignorance of Latin"; and they wonder even at the steadfastness of tradition...
Scholarships for 1915-16 were awarded as follows: Hilton Scholarship to Thorndike Saville; Joseph Eveleth Scholarships to G. W. Crow and B. P. Hamilton; Henry Weidemann Locke Scholarship to W. Haynes...
...fact, Captain Denegre, a junior, is the only veteran from last year who is on the 1914 varsity squad; the next crow will be drawn from material that has learned the new stroke only and that rowed, if at all, in freshman shells. In the head coach Yale has a young man who in the words of Bob Cook, 'has the flair and the keenness of the born coach...