Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Keene's colt, Blue Grass, was winner of the Ascot biennial stakes yesterday...
...Yale crew's shell, which "looked down upon the people below, recalling the time when it had looked upon eelgrass and had felt sadder." Who could have thought of such a brilliant compliment to the young ladies of New Haven? Who would have thought they reminded one of "eel-grass...
...place there was no more "squabbling" over the details of the race of last summer than was necessary for a satisfactory arrangement. The only dispute of importance - that of starting the boats - was settled at once by the decision of the referee. As far as the talk about "eel-grass and lunatic coxswains" is concerned, it is no more than will naturally arise in the case of a beaten crew who, no doubt, honestly believed themselves superior to the victors. Although the talk at Harvard over the preceding race was in marked contrast to the excuses made by Yale...
...undoubtedly are, inclined to be more gentlemanly than Yale men, but in a sport like rowing, where ungentlemanly conduct cannot win as it can in foot-ball, we should choose the more effiicent adversary. However much Yale may strive to make herself disagreeable by her infantile cries of eel grass, such claims, which, even if allowed, only show a want of management and judgment on her part, can only result in making her, as it did last June, the laughing stock of the college and sporting world...
...campus, and at 4 P. M. the outdoor class tree exercises began. A small platform had been erected on the sloping ground of the campus, and the audience were grouped in front on settees and chairs, while the four classes, marching in cheering, were seated on the grass directly in front of the speakers. Two addresses were made by members of the class, and then came the "address to undergraduates," a composition much after the style of our "ivy oration," and abounding in witticisms and sly personalities and local hits. The class tree was then "planted," by a few shovelfuls...