Word: penns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard vs. University of Penn. -Jarvis Field...
...Penn...
...ground from which the men jumped was hard clay, so that they did not slip, and gave them a from footing to spring from. The average jumping, as well as the record made, was the best ever seen at any contest in America. Six men, W. B. Page of Penn., The man who recently made a record of 5 feet, 9 inches, Harriman of Princeton, Richards of Columbia and Atkinson, Clark and Fogg of Harvard, were entered and all contested. The bar was put up to 5ft., 5in. before any failed. Harriman then dropped out with a record...
...language used in the catalogue. A correspondent of the Transcript thus sums up the inconsistency of the translator : "It is positively unpardonable that Ensign Man should stand unchanged, when it can be exactly translated by Signifier Homo. The translator neglects also to turn the given name Cotton into Gossipium, Penn into Stylus, Prince into Princeps, True into Verus, Clark into Scriba, Rest into Requies, Kinsman into Consanguineous, Oxenbridge into Bovepons; Greenlief into Viridfolium, etc., and he was doubtless utterly stumped by Nyot, Leverett, Zoheth, Gad, Elbtidge, Epes, Byron and Shearjashub. Many Hebrew names stand unchanged, as Jared, Samuel, Benjamin, Thomas...
...evibecome tired of such unsatisfactory victories as those she has won in the past few years over Princeton, and now longs for greater glory. To say the least, the university has taken a strange way of winning renown. And yet when we consider that it is the U. of Penn. that has invented this new way of becoming champion oarsmen, it is not so strange after all. The university has simply reached the climax of its boating policy, which policy has always been, first to say 'You can't whip me,' and after being whipped to claim that...