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Anent the origin of the term "racket," I quote verbatim from Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (London, 1823), a definition which antedates the origin described by you (TIME...
Team B.--C. S. Grose '27, s.s.; Butler Cox '27, 3b.; W. P. Ellison '27, 1b.; J. E. Knowlton '26, 2b.; S. L. Steevens '25, l.f.; R. T. Flood '27, c.f.; H. R. Jones '26, c.; J. H. Broome '26, r.f.; C. P. Clifford...
...onetime Zion's Herald. He proposed that every member of the Board should give his gold watch to the cause. Luther B. Wilson, famed Bishop, at once saw the point. He took out his watch, went to the table, laid it down. In the pocket of Bishop Grose ticked the timepiece of the late James W. Bashford,* Bishop of Peking, who put Methodism on the Oriental side of the map. That, too, went on the table. It was a good idea. C. E. Welch,† grape juice man, took his watch to the table. He was followed...
George R. Grose, President of De Pauw University...
Ph.D.--Lawrence Turner Fairhall, Clyde Leclare Grose, Henry Bass Hall, Alain LeRoy Locke, John Levi Manahan. Frederic Schenck, Francis Asbury Waterhouse...