Word: jockey
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Jockey Galop, Bayer...
...suits will be of Yale gray. On the left pocket of the shirt will be '96 in crimson felt letters. The pants will have a crimson welt running down the side seam. The caps will be of crimson flannel with a two and a half inch jockey visor. On the cap will be embroidered the letter H with '96 worked in on the cross bar. The sweaters will be white with a large H with '96 as on the cap. There will also be crimson jerseys...
Another phase of the athletic question is discussed by Mr. L. McK. Garrison. He argues that to the system of intercollegiate leagues are due "the blocking of useful rules by smaller colleges, the retention of the 'assisted athlete' system, the vile wrangles in the public press, and jockey tricks of every description;"-and all for "the artificial and empty name" of championships. What Harvard wishes now is to play her "nearest neighbor and first rival," whether the arrangement "be called a 'league...
...Road Horses" is a clever intermixture of the jockey, the traveller, and the essayist. "Over the Teacups," is not as good as usual. The historian of them cannot keep his hand away from the more familiar characters that in other days figured in the "Autocrat," the "Poet," and the "Professor." James Jeffrey Roche gives a poem "At Sea," evidently suggested by the death of his brother in the Samoan hurricane...