Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cannot see the use of such relentless severity. College is not the place for such discipline, if that is what is desired. A man is supposed to have got that before. Every man forgets at times, and that the penalty for such a little slip should be to deprive him of the most valued associations of his college life seems harsh and unjust. Of course it will be said that such valued associations should be better cared for. I can only say that a man's memory, especially when he is at all busy does not always retain facts with...
Brooke kicked off from the 20-yard line and the ball landed in fair bounds thirty yards nearer Harvard's goal, where Pennsylvania soon got it on a fumble, Fairchild allowing it to slip through his hands. Immediately afterwards he was badly hurt and had to be carried from the field by force, giving place to Dunlop...
Brooke kicked off from the 20-yard line and the ball landed in fair bounds thirty yards nearer Harvard's goal, where Pennsylvania soon got it on a fumble, Fairchild allowing it to slip through his hands. Immediately afterwards he was badly hurt and had to be carried from the field by force, giving place to Dunlop...
...University was nothing short of absurd. In a country where good public speakers are a government necessity, and where the number of such speakers is at present distressingly small, it seems beyond comprehension that young men in a position to make themselves good speakers should wholly let slip the opportunity...
...field both Beale in left and Garrison in centre played good games, but Stevenson at right was a decided failure, He muffed two easy flies and let a grounder slip by him. The features of the game were the heavy batting of Brown and three double plays made by Harvard in the first, fifth and sixth innings. In the first, with Tenney and Steere on second and first bases Corbett made a beautiful catch of Cook's high foul. Both base runners tried to advance a base and Corbett threw to third to catch Tenney there, but he ran back...