Word: goats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with various articles raked from the closets of undergraduate debtors." One man, later president of the college, settled his bill with an old cow, -- whose merits and value proved cause for a spirited dispute. The accounts of the fund for the first college building include the entry: "Received a goat, 30s, plantation of Watertown rate, which died...
...same point in its processional cycle. As for the animals of the Ark, they refer to the symbolic or spiritual animals of the Zodiac--for of course it is only to be expected that such a powerful race intellectually would select precisely a Bull, a Crab, a Goat, a Water-Bearer, etc., from all the possible things there were to choose from.-- "The animals went in two by two"; fortunately there are twelve signs in the Zodiac...
Army Menaces Navy Billy-Goat...
...Wilhide is another clever Cadet back, who is a good all-around athlete, one of the best since Vidal and Olyphant starred on the Plains. The Army with such coaching as it receives from Daly on the backfield, and Graves on the linemen, cannot fail to cause the Navy Goat some very dejected spasms in the late November classic at the Polo Grounds...
...fair to Folwell to blame him for the upheaval. Somebody had to be the "goat," and he was tagged "it" in rather shabby fashion. His vindication as a coach lies in the quickness with which the Naval authorities snatched him up to coach the Midshipmen this fall...