Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have had considerable experience on various amateur teams. The class has given good financial support, about $75 having already been raised. The men will begin training next week. Following are the names of some of the most promising candidates: A. Riggs, J. Riggs, Marshell, Magic, McKenney, McIlvaine, Milligan, Ames, Stump, Coulter, Pendleton, Tindle, J. Bent, Prentice and C. E. Rieman. Rieman has been elected captain and will undoubtedly serve well as such for he has acquired a good knowledge of the game, having played for some time on the Quicksteps of Baltimore. The Messrs. Riggs have served on the same...
...perfect recitation is called a "tear" at Princeton, "squirt" at Harvard, "sail" at Bowdoin, "rake" at Williams and "cold rush" at Amherst. A failure in recitation receives the title of "slump" at Harvard, a "stump" at Princeton, a "smash" at Wesleyan and a "flunk" at Amherst. - Amherst Student...
...draw students from all over the world; no college - not even Harvard - has men from so many foreign countries. Two-thirds of the States of the Union are represented on our rolls. Alumni who have studied abroad can testify that they have seen a passage in Aristotle "stump" a whole class in Berlin University, until it came to one of our own graduates, who translated it with ease. "What gymnasium did you come from?" asked the celebrated professor. "From none, sir; from the University of Pennsylvania!" "I do not know much of it," was the reply; "but where you came...
...instructor on a salary less than that paid to an ordinary butler at the West End. So at Harvard our young men can study Sanscrit or Anglo Saxon, but get no training in the queen of arts, public oratory. By consequence, Harvard men when they go on the stump or platform generally show breeding and culture, and an amazing absence of oratorical power...
...stump's" coxswain was W. H. Goodwin, weight, 110 pounds. The great weight of the big crew brought the top of their shell down almost to the water's edge. The race was for a supper to be given by the vanquished, but both crews were so thoroughly pumped that the banquet has been postponed for a few days. The students took great interest in the contest, and crowds of them watched it from start to finish. - N. Y. Times...