Word: turned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...play-ground of youths who find no better enjoyment than in foul language and in playing hockey, polo they call it, upon the effeminate grass. The only active pump in the yard is their headquarters, and the thirsty student is often compelled to await his turn until the individual members of the detail of muckerism which happens to have precedence over him have sufficiently amused themselves and their comrades by various feats of agility of which the pump is the prime motor. It is useless for the faculty to attempt to rejuvenate the sickly sward while it is the camping...
Every freshman should attend the concert given by the Freshman Glee Club this evening, for the benefit of the crew. The concert promises to be of unusual excellence, and every man will be amply repaid, even if no patriotic motive influences him to turn out and aid in filling the treasury of his crew...
...TRIALS.There were four teams which actually contested in this event, those of Lafayette, Leigh, Columbia and Harvard. A fifth from St. Johns was ruled out because of an improper belt, and the Pennsylvania team did not turn up. Lafayette made easy work of the Columbias, and the Harvard men had to pull the Leigh team, their old antagonists of a year ago. The result was that at the end our men had pulled fourteen inches away from Lehigh. This left Lafayette and Harvard to contest for the final heat, the last event on the programme...
...other two, by that time already half way to the first hurdle, or get left entirely. He ran so much better than they that he cleared the last hurdle almost at the same time with them, and finished but a few inches in the rear of Safford, who, in turn, was almost abreast of Ludington, the winner. The time...
...scored once. It began to grow dark in the eight. but play was continued. Palmer was again put in to pitch. Through sharp playing by Foss and Gallivan Yale was blanked. Harvard came to the bat, made a hit, but was forced out at second by Fargo, who in turn scored second on a wild throw to first by McConkey. Foss got around to third on the same throw, and scored on Austin's hit, the run which tied the game. Ingersoll had just before fould out, and with two men out and a man on first the game...