Word: woke
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...word before we end to our plucky Freshman Nine. They were somewhat surprised by the strength of the team they played on Saturday, and they soon woke up to the fact that they must work...
Thomas Jefferson at an early period mastered a system of education for Virginia but he only established what we might call the steeple of the church without the church. He nevertheless woke up a band of thoughtful men in the South who believed in and later acted upon his ideas. The Civil War prostrated all educational plans completely and from 1860-1870 the Southern States were more lacking in schooling than any other people in the world within the last fifty years. When the war finally ended colleges and academies immediately sprung up, but nobody could afford to send their...
...lost it on four downs, as Harvard woke up to the situation; and Captain Lewis' men were obliged to take the defensive. Lake and Gray took the play back to the middle of the field, and on the second down Trafford kicked, Hallowell followed it well, and, when the Amherst full back tumbled, got the ball and took it five yards nearer Amherst's goal. Lake ran through and made the touch down. Goal...
...made a desperate effort to retrieve the game. Dean led off with a long three bagger to right. Then Hallowell knocked a sky scraper to left field. It fell directly in the fielder's hands but he dropped it, and Dean came in. The crowd of spectators woke up and began to do some vigorous cheering. Hallowell took second on the throw in. Hovey and Trafford both hit to short; and their sacrifices brought Hallowell home. Two men were out and a run needed to tie. Frothingham flied out to right field and ended the game...
...when playing at the west end of the field was lost to Harvard. But this did not matter; Harvard was not to be denied. The whole team went at Yale in the whirlwind style that has been characteristic of Harvard's play all the fall, and when Yale woke up, about an half-hour later, the score was 12-0 against them. The way the rush-line shoved Yale's heavy forwards about, and the manner in which the backs streaked through the Yale line and around the end, called forth continuous cheering from the Harvard side of the field...