Word: picking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...plenty of time and space, we would like to pick up the gauntlet thrown down to us by the Oberlin Review. We would like to comment on the extreme weight of its articles (O Heavens! how heavy they were); to praise the judicious arrangement of the paper, putting its best column (the Exchanges) near the beginning; to - But really we have n't any more time to waste on this sheet of "Our Boys and Girls...
...Columbia Freshmen have voted to let the Captain of the University pick out their class crew, and that the crew shall choose its own captain...
...beginning of the dissertation pick out a brilliant passage from your Sophomore themes. This will attract attention; and if it seem abrupt, the objection against abrupt beginnings is not well founded. [See Hill's Rhet., Book II. Chap. VI.] A similar quotation somewhat longer and, if possible, more brilliant will make a good conclusion. The intervening part, the body of the dissertation, should be carefully arranged, and have several marked divisions. Such divisions encourage the reader, for, without counting the remaining pages, he can see that he is drawing nearer the end; and they also are extremely handy when...
...hippodrome began. Howe tried to sacrifice, but Walden fumbled; bases full, Nunn tried to fly out, but Walden muffed, Wright scoring; Thayer tried to sacrifice, Walden threw wildly home, Winsor scoring; Tyng tried to sacrifice, Walden threw wildly home, Howe scoring; Latham struck to Hutchison, who made a fine pick up and forced Nunn out on home; Ernst made a base-hit, Thayer scoring; Holden hit hard to centre, caught by Brown, and Tyng was put out napping between bases, when he should have scored on the fly. Base-hits by Hutchison and Parker, and a sacrifice by Smith, earned...
...second; Holden made a base-hit, but was caught on second; Wright took first on Hamill's error, and second on Latham's sacrifice hit; Nunn flied to Wigton; Hunt hit for a base in the sixth, but Tyng and Latham caught him at second; Wright made a fine pick-up of a low throw by Nunn; Fessenden caught a hard fly; Tyng reached second on an error by Hunt and a stolen base, but was left by Hunt's good fly-catches. The game at this point began to look very doubtful for Harvard, the score standing Princeton...