Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...held in line in the following order, beginning at the western bank: Amherst, Massachusetts Agricultural, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Wesleyan, Williams, Dartmouth, Trinity, Bowdoin, and Cornell; the position of the last three almost sealing their fate from the start. It was no ordinary sight, these sixty-six young men, the pick of eleven colleges, presented as they sat there, bending forward, all eyes on the starter, as motionless as statues. The brown skins and developed muscles showed a latent power which was hardly less imposing than when it was called into full play in the grand rush and machine-like movement...
...courteous thing in Harvard and Amherst to waive their strictly legal advantage, and grant, as an equitable claim, what could not be demanded according to the letter of the rules. To this there is a twofold answer. In the first place, inasmuch as Yale's right to pick her crew from the Sheffield School was not perfectly clear, she should have sent, months ago, a notice of her intention to her opponents, with an explanation of her reasons. Had this been done, the reasons would have been considered, and a decision reached in which, the editors of the Magenta hope...
...five, and two, in the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings, while New Haven only obtained a two and a one in the fifth and sixth. At this point the score showed fifteen runs in our favor against six for our opponents; but Yale now began to pick up fast, and scored five and three in the next two innings to nothing and one for us. White had changed positions with Perry, but, beside frightening the enemy from stealing second base, could not change the current of luck, which seemed setting in, in favor of Yale. At the beginning...