Word: grew
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...veterans were the poorest. At the same time came the accidents that always occur during the middle of the season. Butterworth, Beard, Adee, and several of the new candidates developed physical troubles, rather more being in the nature of sickness, than sprains or bruises. This state of affairs grew worse until at least half the old players were considered unfit to play in the big games. By the last of October, the Yale team was not in any better circumstances, in spite of the list of veteran players, than the Harvard team. On the day that Harvard won from Cornell...
CLASS GAME. - Will these men please keep back the spectators at the class game? Wheatland, Peabody, Brice, Fairbank, Briggs, Grew, Whittemore, Spaulding, May, Cummings, French, Goodwin. The game is to be played on the open field, and if the crowd is not kept back it will interfere with the playing...
...freshmen, and resulted in a tie. The freshmen were strengthened by Hennen and Hoague from the 'varsity, and they did very effective work in tackling and making holes. The defensive work of both teams was much weaker than the offensive. As a whole both teams played Well, though '97 grew weaker in the second half. The sophomores started out playing hard and scored twice in the first half and not at all in the second. The freshmen could not hold them in the first, but in the second part of the game they scored two touchdowns quite easily...
...Dalton, Mgr.CLASS GAME.-Will the following men please act as ushers for '95 to keep back the crowd at the class game: Briggs, Fairbank, Brice, Grew, Peabody, Whit- man, Lawton, Whittemore, Bingham, MacNear, Wheatland, Spalding...
...presence might not remain over the other inmates of the house. The earliest idea of a tomb was that of a house like that occupied by the spirit in life and which was to be its permanent domicile. Among people who lived in caves, burial was made underground. Thus grew up the ideas of the nether world which are shown in the word hell, which means "the hidden." Some people buried their dead in mounds and barrows and some on hill-tops which were consequently believed to be peopled with spirits. Probably the latter custom was not without influence...