Word: got
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...baseball and lacrosse men at Princeton got the first out-door practice last week...
...resolutions of the recent inter-collegiate athletic conference have called out a chorus of disapproval from several quarters, and it is evidently more than doubtful whether five colleges can be got to approve them. Harvard and Princeton have adopted them. Brown has refuse. There is no chance that Yale will accept them, and even if Columbia and Wesleyan should, the defection of Yale will make any attempt at union nearly impossible. Whether we call Harvard and Yale universities or only college like the rest, they are so much larges, and their stake in the matter is so much greater...
...should, and then inquired for President Chamberlin, and remarked that he had a check in his pocket for the college. He was told that he was in Europe. Prof. Packard said he paid attention to the stranger, being particularly desirous to learn more about the check, "and I got it into my house...
...seem likely that there can be a Yale race, but Harvard will have to forfeit the race since she did not declined to row next June before Christmas. At any rate it does not seem likely that a crew trained exclusively for a four mile race can be got in condition by next June for a three-mile contest...
...grammar will out. When Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune, was in college, he revealed an unusual zeal in mastering the difficulties of the mother tongue. He got his Latin and Greek, but he was always subjecting to an analysis all the English spoken within reach of his hungry ear. He killed off a great number of these verbal savages during his college days and thus in part fitted himself for the office of war correspondent and editor. College graduates have written letters in which there was the following spelling: "colledge," "sundies," "to great," "to fat," "separate." It would...