Word: pick
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fault is the poor catching of punted balls. Those that are returned by the half-backs on the opposing side are rarely caught, on account of the idea that, even if they are not caught, ample time is given by the college team, for the university half-backs to pick up and return the ball, but we would remind the halfbacks that Princeton men are proverbial for the way in which they follow after the ball, and such an error would be more fatal than is perhaps imagined in an important game. The reshers block fairly well, but have grown...
...after 11 o'clock Yale began to play the New York University team, and at noon the game stopped in favor of Yale with a score of 2 goals to 0. This was not a hard earned victory, considering the almost total inability of the New York's to pick up the ball, and the terrorizing recklessness with which the Yale men brandished their sticks. At 12 the Druids, of Baltimore, and Harvard faced one another. If, at first, there was any doubt in the minds of the Harvard men as to the ability of their opponents to play lacrosse...
...into the society building and lind onc's tennis net gone is about as annoying a thing as can happen to a man, and it happens quite frequently Men who own no net, go into the building and pick out one to suit themselves. Then the owner of the net which took their fancy comes along, and not finding his net is elther obliged to give up play altogether or spend the greater part of the afternoon hunting it up, or else take another man's net, thus handing down the annoyance. Those men who, owning no net of their...
...which the university was founded and endowed. But however beautiful this plan may seem, and notwithstanding the enormous sums devoted to it, in the opinion of all unprejudiced Englishmen it does but little for science; manifestly because most of these young men, although they are the pick of the students, and in the most favorable conditions possible for scientific work, have in their student career not come sufficiently in contact with the living spirit of inquiry, to work on afterward on their own account, and with their own enthusiasm...
...testimony in the hazing cases at Annapolis is very curious. One cadet testified that it was really very enjoyable to pick a coin with his teeth from a tub of water...