Word: roote
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feel that every year as students we are more and more losing the distinctive traits of former times? No longer do many of the more famous old college words and customs survive. Hazing has gone long ago. Now under our very eyes we see determined attempts made to root out the older forms of athletics. Even Harvard indifference is no longer talked of. Very soon we may look to see the "typical" Harvard student, no longer typical, a plain ordinary youth, of passive tendencies and no interests but those most strictly proper in a cosmopolitan and general sense. What points...
...authority, Bill went for the window, out of which he had got his head and shoulders, when down came the sash on his back, and held him fast. The teacher appreciated the advantage the situation conferred, and applied so vigorous a castigation that it went to the very root of the resistance. After that order reigned in that particular school' us while J. S. was in charge.-[Gazette...
...game of foot-ball Monday between table 24 of Memorial and a picked eleven resulted in a tie, each side having made a touchdown. The elevens were composed as follows : Picked eleven-rushers, Newhall, Hazard, Bailey, Danielson, Bowen, Root, Goodable ; quarter-back, Holiday ; half-backs, Keith and Hanson ; full-back, Mitchell. Table 24-rushers, Boyden, Foster, Edgerly, Boyden, Colony, Barton, Gorham ; quarter-back, Graham ; half-backs Boyden, Haines ; full-back, Howard...
...scorer root w'en de base-hits tied...
Tutoring in Freshman German. T. H. Root, 27 Grays...