Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Poor old Harvard! Princeton whitewashed her foot-ball team, and now the same team has been defeated by Yale by a score of 29 to 4. If this sort of thing keeps up, Harvard's eminence as an educational power will be gone and she will be obliged to hang several yards of crape on her front door. - Baltimore American...
...been taken a fortnight after the opening of college could be let It is very tantalizing for those who did not have the luck to secure any lockers, to see lockers which are taken but are not used, while they, when they desire to exercise, have to hang their clothes in the dressing-rooms, which are very small and uncomfortable, or lay them on the lockers, which crowds their owners space...
...crew as a whole does not keep good time; the oars hang over the water and do not go in neatly enough. The men do not slide slowly enough on the recover; they do not start on the recover soon enough; most of them do not feather long enough; they do not keep their blades quite covered, and some of them get jerky when they spurt." - Columbia Spectator...
...Doesn't face his oar soon enough on the recover, which causes a hang on the full reach. Doesn't row his shoulders back. Keeps bad time...
There are now about forty men in training. Of this number probably one half will "hang-on" till the time of the games. A person who knows whereof he speaks says that the most promising candidates for honors are: C. H. Sherrill, Jr., '89, and A. Leeds, '87, who are doing the best work at the 100 yards dash. Both men have covered the distance in 10 1-2 seconds, and there are strong hopes that Sherrill will manage to get this down a fifth of a second or so. His chances would be much better if he could improve...