Word: pick
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...money could possibly be collected, would it not be highly beneficial to our rowing interests to send a four-oared crew picked from the class crews, after the class races, to Lake George? We are aware that many would oppose sending such a crew, as it would not be strictly representative. But the general opinion at present seems in favor of lighter men for short distance, and we should be able to pick out a four that we would have no reason to be ashamed of. - [Crimson, January...
...Western paper, recording the exploit of the bloodhound in an "Uncle Tom's Cabin" company, that lately broke his bonds and killed the donkey of the troupe, remarks that the dog was rather mean to pick out the best actor in the company...
...present, received a mortal wound. The crew last spring was a good one, and made good time, but ill-fortune attended it, and it only succeeded in coming in ahead of Cornell and Bowdoin at Lake George. Princeton, as well as the University of Pennsylvania, has a bone to pick with Columbia for not appearing at Philadelphia last June. But the sentiment here by no means justifies the opinions expressed in the University Magazine concerning the Harvard-Columbia dispute. To us, as lookers-on (perhaps not the best judges), the matter appears in a light very unfavorable to Harvard...
...said before, the wages paid to waiters by the association are necessarily low. And for this reason it is impossible for Mr. Fred Balch to hire a large number of good waiters whenever he wants them. But he can pick them up, one or two at a time, and so can replace, one or two at a time, the new waiters whom he was obliged to hire, but who have proved inefficient. This winnowing process takes time, and as one's comfort at Memorial depends entirely on one's waiter, a few of us must suffer for the time being...
...alone marred the otherwise splendid record of the man who made it. A base on balls and a wild throw lost a game which had been won on its merits. The result of this game is but another illustration of the prevailing weakness of college players. They can generally pick up balls and make brilliant stops and catches, but they do not seem to know the little points of the game, but go to pieces at the first critical point. However, to lose a game by such an accident as the one of yesterday is certainly an instance of hard...