Word: wild
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Always noted for boldness and originality, the Tech., in its last number, certainly outdid itself in trying to be funny, when it published a cut of an old lady's wig, all powdered and curled, and asked below that agonizingly funny question, "What are the Wild Waves Saying?" Surely the reply comes as an echo from the Trinity Tablet that the Tech. - ha! ha! ha! has a page of - ha! ha! ha! cuts, don't look at them - ha! ha! ha! it's really too painful - ah! - [Nassau...
...denied that there is a "quarrel waged with bitterness." The Harvard HERALD says that our Chambers street neighbor, in dealing with this question, has "made a mountain out of a mole hill," and we incline to the same opininion. It is too much to assume that wild remarks made by individual students represent the sentiments of the entire body of students of Harvard and Yale. - [Turf, Field and Farm...
...gross misrepresentation of saying that ground had actually been broken for the new Harvard Law School. If things go on at this rate, we may soon expect to hear that Memorial Hall has been completed, or that Harvard has a Dining Association six hundred strong, or some other, equally wild and improbable rumor...
...college has gone wild over Rugby, and the prospects of the university foot-ball team are quite good. W. W. Niles, '83, is manager, and H. A. Drew, '83, captain. The names of the players are: Full-back, Gove; half-backs, Brooks, Oakes; quarter-back, Cushman; rushers, Drew, Towle, Weston, Nettleton, Brown, Rand and Rolfe; substitutes, Hulbert, Sargent, Bennett, Chellis. Capt. Greeley of the second Rugby team has his men out daily, and is giving the university team some excellent practice...
Passed balls-Crocker, 1. Wild pitch - Bean, 1. Base on balls - '84. 1. Struck out, '85, 4; '84, 5. Umpire - Mr. Lowell...