Word: harrowing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sports, but, to tell you frankly, I was surprised as much at the poor records as at the few entries. To think that only two contestants appeared for the half-mile run, for instance, - only two out of a thousand men at your University! Why, at Eton or Harrow or any school here, I am sure there would have been ten times that number, at least half of whom would have beaten that time. Tell me, is it that Harvard men take no interest in athletic games, or that they are lazy? For your papers are always full of sporting...
...races are neither an impossible nor an improbable thing. There is no reason why eight-oared shells should not be used, if the men are willing to train. They are used at all the English colleges and by all the English schools, and what school-boys at Eton or Harrow can do, surely men of our College can do, if they will do sufficient training and work together. A reason for the second eight's rolling their shell in the manner described may have been owing to the changes of men and positions in the boat, or lack of practice...
Your feelings it will harrow...
...game of foot-ball, to be played according to the Rugby rules. Yale replied to this by refusing to kick foot-ball unless our Sophomores played base-ball with them; unless they consented to come to New Haven and were willing to kick the football match according to the Harrow rules. A committee of five has been appointed to endeavor to understand these stipulations, and if possible arrange a meeting...
...shoots, your heart to harrow...