Word: prey
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University second baseball team will play the Tufts second team this afternoon at 4 o'clock on the second team diamond. HARVARD 2ND. TUFTS 2ND. Paine, l.f. 3b., Muzzey Foster, 3b. s.s., Du Prey Marshall, s.s. c., Green Harding, 1b. 1b., Dunn Hamlen, r.f. p., Houston Ferguson, c.f. c.f., Kimball Rowley, 2b. 2b., McLane Evarts, c. l.f., Gray Everts, p. r.f., Sheehan
...their tempers; but others are habitually guilty of them." The common justification offered for these "hateful conditions," President Eliot says, is that football is a fight and that its strategy and ethics are those of war. New tricks are always desirable as surprises; the weaker man is the legitimate prey of the stronger. "One should always try to discover the weakest man in the opponent's line, as, for example, the man most recently injured, and attack him again and again. If a man, by repeated blows about the head and particularly on the jaw, has been visibly dazed...
Prizes and honorable mentions have been awarded as follows in the Camera Club exhibit now being held in Robinson Hall: first prize--group by T. W. Sears '07; second prize--group by M. S. McN. Watts 1G.; honorable mentions--"Fitting for the Banks" and "Prey of the Sea," by M. D. Miller 4M; "The River Road," by V. H. McCutcheon '07; "An Austrian Farmyard," by K. G. Carpenter '08; "The Old Spring House," by E. S. Bryant...
...Kuwana, assistant in the Entomology department of Stanford University, California, has just returned from a trip to Japan, his native country, where he has been pursuing successful researches in economic entomology. He has found six varieties of insects, all of which prey upon and eradicate the San Jose scale, America's most dangerous fruit pest...
According to Sallust, this downfall was due in large measure to the destruction of Carthage, which left Rome without an enemy and therefore an easy prey to internal corruption. During the century prior to the time of Cicero and Caesar, a clique of about 300 politicians held the power and managed all elections, with the result that riots and proscriptions followed each other in rapid succession. The condition of the proletariats, or common rabble, became steadily worse; but during the long quarrel between Marius and Tulla their support was essential for the success of either party, a fact which...