Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...members of '93 have shown as yet but little disposition to give more than good words to their crew. Such contributions will not pay the expenses of a shell, training-table, and trip to New London. They seem but hollow and meaningless when the speakers persistently refuse to give any more substantial support. The present lack of interest is disheartening to the crew as well as to the manager, and will tell in the races. No man can pull his best when he feels that his classmates are indifferent to success. It the members of '93 are not wholly indifferent...
...country and Canada. The book opens with brief sketches of the year's work in this country and in England, and closes with the revised rules of the game. Its bulk is occupied by club scores. The first record is that of the Gentlemen of Philadelphia on their English trip. Next comes the Harvard record. with a summary of the matches and the individual batting and bowling averages. Then follow in some confusion records of other clubs. A noticeable fault is the omission of the Longwood club's scores. The book ought to have been better arranged and more complete...
...Colorado, and the paleontologists and topographers in Utah and Wyoming. A more successful expedition was made in 1878 by a small party which explored the Bridger Eocene of south western Wyoming. In 1882 another successful party made a collection of the White River Miocene of Dakota and Nebraska. The trip to the Wasatch beds of northern Wyoming under Professor Scott in 1884 accomplished little, but in 1885 and 1886, valuable collections were made from the Bridger country and from the little-known vita fountains of northeastern Utah. In 1889 the seventh expedition secured extensive collections from the miocene formations...
...June a team picked from the elevens of all the colleges on a tour through Canada, and, if possible, play a match with a team representing the colleges of the Dominion. A committee of three-Messrs. Baily, Colladay, and Brown-was appointed to make the necessary arrangements for the trip...
...number of students in Natural History will go on a geological trip during the vacation...