Word: pinned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will be more than out-distanced in the dashes, in which L. N. Thurston of Yale will be an easy winner. The relay, too, will in all probability go to the Elis, as they recently failed by only three seconds of equaling the intercollegiate record. The University must pin its hopes of winning points on the plunge, in which the New Haven men are said to be weak, and the dive, in which there should be a close contest...
...thole pin system of rigging long antedates the American style and has never been supplanted in England. It was revived in this country by Coach Guy Nickalls of the Yale crew, and has been used ever since by that college. If Coach Wright should decide that the swivel locks are more advantageous for his crew than the present system, Yale will be the only college in the United States which still holds to the thole pins Neither Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, nor the University has ever adopted the foreign rigging, but it was tried at Pennsylvania under the regime of Coach...
...startling and forceful way, Mr. Sunday reminded the many undergraduates in his audience that "it takes more than a mortar board cap, a diploma, a fraternity pin and a bull-dog pipe to make a man. You can't expect to get an education out of a four-years' college course. You just get started. Keep at it all your life and you will get part of an education if you are among the successful. Don't build your character like a woman fixes a sewing machine--removing everything that should be left stationary and putting oil on the belt...
Those men who are shooting at Wake-field must clean the bolts of their rifles. Much trouble has been experienced by rifles refusing to fire because of cosmolene clogging the firing pin...
...coat and an official cap, and places where he may go if he doesn't sit in the first three rows. If he wishes to smoke a numeral pipe, he may do so only in the privacy of his own chamber. He must never, never wear a preparatory school pin. He must not remain seated in a street-car while an upperclassman stands...