Word: trotting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Four hundred and forty yards run-F. W. Robinson '90, time 53 4-5 seconds. Robinson finished the last thirty-five yards in a jog trot, looking back for his contestants...
...very successful, the Harvard team being beaten by "Atlantics," "Eurekas," "Excelsiors" and "Actives," 37-15, 42-39, 46-28 54 15. In these games the Harvard catcher, Flagg, catches pluckily although his hands are badly bunged up. The Eureka game was interrupted by a "fat 'Jersey' pig, making full trot for the pitcher's stand." Wild pitching and weariness of the nine is Harvard's explanation of the defeats. After returning home, without going to Hartford, the nine slaughtered the Beacon's in a finely played game, 77 to 11. Hunnewell, Harvard's third base, made the pleasing score...
...from the fact that the day itself opened in clouds and rain, the game which followed seemed to have partaken of the nature of the weather, and the ensemble was truly dismal. The line of herdics which had taken hopeful '88 men to the field, returned at a brisk trot with all their crimson banners carefully put out of sight; the Yale freshmen all this time, however, were howling themselves hoarse on the field, and waving great blue banners with a wild enthusiasm...
...though it is evident that Yale is hunting for one more scalp wherewithal to complete the mural decorations of its wigwam, Harvard must beg to be excused. We don't play that kind of polo. We are lazy, it must be granted, but still it looks rather well to trot through our games on ponies, and, since we trot through our classics in the same way, everything is in keeping, and the tout ensembles admirable! See? To be sure, our polo players have never played anybody, and odds are even if they ever do, but we have never been defeated...
...been a peculiar one, not to put it too strongly, a method employing the dictionary largely in translating the author's ancient and modern, and altogether ignoring the sound of a language. In fact it was a reasoning system, one that was largely made up of grammar and "trot" and that did not teach a man to distinguish the subtle differences in measure and order by his ear (an organ which seldom errs) but by complex rules, committed to memory with much labor and easily forgotten. In the English colleges of a few centuries ago, it was an ordinary circumstance...