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Word: drags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...found, which will probably keep up the university standard, but rid it of its present objectionable features. However, with the undergraduate rule in the precarious position it now holds, it seems a questionable policy, for those who have of their own free will adopted it, to try to drag others down to their own level. We think that the athletic spirit at Yale must be too sportsmanlike to allow the baseball games to fall through because Yale has, by her own deliberate action, weakened her teams and their chances of winning. If this were not the case, Yale "grit" would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/28/1893 | See Source »

...special train. Again the mildest natures had a chance to say their bluest words. There was no hing to do but dismiss the audience by telegram and continue on the regular train. This the club did and at eleven o'clock, a dejected, disgusted, worn-out crowd dragged their baggage through the dingy station and out into the smoky night. At he Burnet House, a Harvard graduate was waiting to take the fellows to the University Club for a dinner. Those who could drag their feet after one another accepted; the rest retired. The dinner was very pleasant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club Trip. | 1/4/1893 | See Source »

...music in the Turkish scene. It is wholly inconsistent and contrary to the spirit of the production. The ceremony is already farcical enough without deliberately making absurd horse-play out of it. The directors would have done well to omit the music altogether rather than to drag in songs which cheapen the scene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The French Play. | 12/20/1892 | See Source »

Another interesting and finely illustrated article is "The Start from Delshaven" by Rev. Daniel Van Pelt. The pictures by J. H. Hatfield and others of the quaint old Dutch town are charming and one wonders how the Puritans could drag themselves away from such a spot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New England Magazine. | 11/6/1891 | See Source »

...balls. Corbett caught and was undoubtedly not in good practice. The outfield had nothing to do and so could make no errors. The team ran bases fairly well but their general play was very slow. The men were slow in taking their places and caused the game to drag. The nine had little difficulty in hitting the ball and batted well. The teams were as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ninety-Four, 20; Browne and Nichols, 3. | 4/14/1891 | See Source »

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