Word: wags
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...failed to return, and in them the team lose two of the best rushers ever in college, as well as the captain elected last year. Wagenhurst has been elected to fill his place, however, and has succeeded in getting out plenty of good material. Of last year's eleven. Wag enhurst, '88, Cowan, '88, Irvine, '88, Price, '88, George, '89, Ames, '90, and R. and H. Hodge, of the Seminary, are back, though at present it is doubtful whether the Hodges play or no. Wagenhurst played end last year, but has developed into an excellent half-back, and will fill...
...wag remarked that if it is impossible to make dropped eggs of bad eggs, how about ninety...
...work and learn. Yet, here in these self-same "classic shades" some ninety years ago, when the eighteenth century was striding on toward its close, there arose a systematic apotheosis of laziness. It was probably in 1796 that the idea of forming the Navy Club was conceived by some wag of the college. The principle of its existence was that it should be a brotherhood of all those who failed to attain distinction in their studies. It was a senior society, and only those members of the class were admitted to membership "who failed to receive parts at the senior...
...wag remarked the other day that all the playing of Yale's champion nine last year could not equal Dr. McCosh's home run from the anniversary last fall...
...Greek, so that his tutor was won't to remark that other boys required a year to accomplish the same end. Of all his father's children, Daniel was, as a boy, the sickliest and most slender, and one of his half-brothers, who was somewhat of a wag. frequently took pleasure in remarking, that "Dan was sent to school because he was not fit for anything else." Even from his boyhood he was an industrious reader of standard authors. and previous to his entering college his favorite books were Addison's Spectator, Butler's Hudibras, and Pope's trans...