Word: parrot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hallock, Andover, 3 minutes, 18 3-4 seconds; 2nd, Burr, Andover, School record broken. 100 yard dash, Baker, Exeter, 11 seconds; 2nd Ellis, Exeter. Running high jump, Heywood, Exeter, 5 feet, 5 5-8 inches; 2nd, Holmes, Andover; record broken. Pole vault, Cartwright, Andover, 8 feet 11 inches; 2nd Parrot, Exeter. Mile run, Curtis, Andover, 4 minutes, 56 seconds; 2nd Graves, Exeter. Record broken. Putting the shot. Turner, Andover, 32 feet, 4 1 2 in. 2nd, Ford, Exeter, 120 yards hurdle race, Graves, Andover, 19 2-5 seconds, 2nd, Stothers, Exeter. Running broad jump, Bloss, Exeter, 20 feet, 4 inches...
...Ellis '90 24 1-4s.; putting the shot, Ford '91, 30ft. 8In.; running broad jump, Heywood '89 19ft. (breaking record); 100 yards three legged race, Ewing and Ellis '90, 12 1-2s; standing broad jump, Bullard '89, 9ft. 10in.; mile run, Grover '90, 5m. 10s.; pole vault, Parrot, '80, 8ft. 6in.; hurdle race, '90, 22s. (breading record); throwing baseball, Lord '89, 315ft. 9in; bicycle (slow race), Stephenson '91. 4m. 41 1-4s.; running high jump, Heywood, '89, 4ft. 6in; bean pot race...
Class Historian-T. M. Parrot...
...rear of the boat, where parallel bars, etc., have been erected. The men exercise there during the evening, often having interesting sparring and wrestling matches for their amusement. As we bade our courteous guide farewell on the upper deck, we noticed the purser with a green parrot - the ship's pet - seated on his wrist and swearing volubly, - the last words we heard upon the "Wabash." We descended into the scow, which was waiting, the windlass turned, and we were once more on dry shore and heading towards Cambridge...
...rather than to living languages. The study of Modern Languages is made to engage the memory alone, and those who undertake the study tend. in consequence, to "become simple information-machines, stuffed with systems of facts that they have no chance to digest ; and they come to play mere parrot roles, learning their task-work without any stimulus to awaken their powers of observation or shape their judgment...