Word: wente
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interest. E. Price Greenleaf was born in Boston in 1790. He was educated in the Boston Latin School, but did not take a collegiate course. He was prepared for a business career, but was not successful. After spending a few years in South Carolina, he returned to Boston, and went into the flour trade under the firm name of Apthorp & Greenleaf. The firm failed in 1830, whereupon the young Greenleaf went to live with his father in the town of Quincy. He never entered business to any great extent again, but lived a very quiet life, rarely mingling in society...
...feet went off in a pair...
...delightful to watch. And when they had got through, there was no standing round looking on. The nearest man to the Yale player who had the ball would seize him and throw him all alone. There was no holding a man up, and as soon as a Yale man went down, the men from the centre were always on him to stop his passing the ball out. Perry played a strong game throughout, doing first-class work, while Piper was very conspicuous by his tackling in the first half and his running in the second. Right through the whole team...
...work of the eleven on Saturday was very gratifying to all who are interested in Harvard foot-ball. Here we had an eleven composed of new and inexperienced men, men who have played but this year and who had no traditions to help them: yet they went on the field against what Yale believed to be as strong an eleven as she has ever had, and never breaking, played, a first class scientific, up-hill game. They had little time to get into shape and were not as well up in some of the refinements of the game as Yale...
...simply came home," he said, "after listening to Mr. Holmes. He spoke so contemptuously of a dry theology - and his remarks were applied to this college, for he mentioned Princeton - that I took the earliest train I could get for home. When I went to Harvard I did not wish a degree for myself, but I was disappointed when Princeton was left out and the neighboring colleges got honors...