Word: pick
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trouble with the Harvard nines for the past three years," says the Cambridge correspondent of the Athlete, "has been that there have been too few candidates to pick from. Although these have been good players, there has not been nearly so much personal interest in the nine as there otherwise would have been, and the men have not been driven by competition to do their best at all times...
...fault to find with him. On the contrary, the crew ought to blame itself and be blamed by the whole class for not having chosen a coach at least a month before the race. It is absolutely impossible for a coach to pick out the individual faults of eight men in eight days. While he attempts to do so, each man contracts new faults, the time becomes poor, the crew soon begins to feel from the motion of the boat that its rowing is ragged and by no means up to the mark, nervousness sets in, and the consequence...
...Paris. It is but human nature that every mortal should complain of his lot - be it what it may. Thus it is, after the novelty of Harvard life has worn off and we become so accustomed to it that it seems an old story, that we begin to pick out this or that insignificant trifle about which to grumble and make ourselves unhappy - letting ourselves lose sight entirely of the prominent and well known fact that we are enjoying educational advantages unsurpassed by any in the world, and that there is no place in the world where to enjoy these...
...College base-ball associations," says the Times, "find it very difficult to pick out a strong team to represent their respective colleges every season. It is often the case that a collegian, after several seasons' work in the diamond field, is graduated just when he becomes an accomplished player of the national game. The Princeton College Club will lose four of its most valuable players next season. They are Larkin, the first baseman; Ernst, the pitcher; Schenck, the catcher, and Rafferty, the second baseman. About a dozen collegians have sent in applications for membership in the nine to fill...
Sawdust should be put upon the steps of Memorial when they are covered with ice indestructible by pick or shovel...