Word: pick
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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88Look at 436 Harvard Street. - Best tennis English caps, 75c.; tennis shirts, $1.50; tennis flannel pants, $2; tennis silk belts, 75c.; tennis shoes, 90c.; Ayer's balls, 37c. Pick & Snyder and Wright & Ditson's rackets constantly on hand. J. F. Noera...
Harvard has grit and enterprise. She has athletic bodies as well as vigorous brains, and Boston has money enough to back her favorite boys and give them every assistance needed. Let Captain Keyes go ahead and begin to train his crew at once, let him pick his men for coolness and endurance, and then let him say what he wants in order to make a winning crew, and the people will see to it that every aid shall be furnished...
...Team. It seems to me that, beside being in direct opposition to the established precedent of the college in the case of other athletic organizations, this is hardly fair. In making up the nines, crews and teams which shall represent the college in all intercollegiate sports, we pick out the best material we can find in the college as a whole, irrespective of class lines. Whenever a man shows marked ability or peculiar aptitude for any particular form of athletics, he is pushed forward and aided for the good of the reputation of the whole college. As far as athletics...
...almost inexplicable. The small amount of work required of an editor upon any one of our college papers certainly brings more than its due reward in the pleasure and experience gained. Therefore, eighty-nine, let us all hear more from you; you have a large field to pick from in the four Harvard papers and your ideas can find expression somewhere if they are worth reading, whether merry light, grave, or newsy. And, ninety, let this same paternal reprimand fall deep into your timid hearts; for what has been said of eighty-nine applies to you as well...
...present in college, (and there is internal evidence that this so,) then he should be discovered, and branded with the contempt that he deserves. Who is this person that pretends to know the needs and means of the first twenty-five scholars in the present senior class and can pick out eight of these men as being able to get along well without aid from the college funds? Let us trust that this omniscient writer himself is not one of these unfortunate high rank men who "almost invariably shun very valuable courses"! This would-be critic is at present unknown...