Word: putting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...call it the greatest shame if the crew were prevented from going to New London merely because the students were not open handed enough to send it down; and yet there were only eighteen men, we understand, out of the whole university who showed that they actually cared to put themselves out sufficiently for the sake of the crew to buy a ticket to the concert. There must be among the men a greater appreciation of their relations with the athletic teams, and a greater willingness to make a little sacrifice...
...classes have been, the same trouble is apt to arise this year. There is still about a thousand dollars to be raised before the tenth of June. If the class is unwise it will hold back its support, the question will come to a point and have to be put squarely then just as it is now, that if the thousand dollars are not raised the crew cannot go to New London. Then while the managers are slaving about the class trying to get enough money, the crew will be waiting in Cambridge and losing days of valuable practice...
Spalding played the greater part of the game for the seniors, holding the freshmen down to five hits, and striking out six men, and making five fielding assists and three put-outs, without an error. Brown played a good game at third, his only error being an excusable fumble of a grounder, and one of his assists being of the star order. Wood played an errorless game at second. Rankin did excellent work at first his, muff of Curtis' difficult throw being his only misplay...
...getting his man. Cassatt, at second, made the star plays of the game however, catching an apparently safe hit off Spaulding's bat in short right field, and then making the assist in an easy double play. Rogers played his usual good game at first base, having sixteen put-outs without an error...
...early editors of the Advocate would probably have been much surprised if, on the day when the first number of volume I was put on sale they had been told that twenty-six years later the sixth number of volume III would be composed of two pages of editorial, a short article on an approaching athletic contest with Yale, a poem, a sonnet, a review of their own labor, and about eight pages of fiction. They would probably have been still more surprised if they had been told what the character of this fiction would be; that there would...