Search Details

Word: putting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...senior honor man on being told that the change battery would be used in the Harvard (exhibition) game, asked if new batters would be put in all around.- Princetonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/30/1885 | See Source »

...following is received in a letter from a graduate of '87, who is at present editor of a prominent daily newspaper in the West. "I notice by the New York Post that the faculty have not put down in the new scheme of electives any course in journalism, short-hand, and some other things advocated by the college papers. To a person who knows something of journalism as it is supposed to be, and as it really is, the decision of the faculty seems to be a very wise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/30/1885 | See Source »

...members of the Columbia crew have at last been selected. Early last November the candidates for the honor of a seat in the 'varsity eight, about twenty in number, were taken in hand and put at work in the gymnasium attached to the Columbia Grammar School. They were kept busy working at the rowing machines, chest and back weights and dumbbells. Five men soon dropped out, and the remaining fifteen men were put in boats under the coaching of R. C. Cornell, '74, of the crews of '73 and '74, and who coached the crew that went to England; Latham...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Columbia Crew | 5/29/1885 | See Source »

...first tried, but since last season some of the men have grown considerably and have a much longer reach than then, and it was decided that while Peet had all the other qualifications of a first-class stroke, the interests of the college would be best served by putting a man in who could set a longer stroke. B. Lockwood, Jr., one of the most useful members of 1 st year's crew, was next tried in that position, but last week he decided, on the advice of his physician, that it would be impossible for him to get himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Columbia Crew | 5/29/1885 | See Source »

...seventh, Harvard added one run. Willard went out, short-stop to first; Allen took first on balls, second on a passed ball, and scored on Smith's three-base hit, The latter, however, was put out at the home plate, and Edgerly went out in the same way as Willard did. Dartmouth added two runs. Dillon reached first on a muff by Willard, Springfield followed on an error of Smith, Dillon goint to third. Weeks flied out to Smith, and Hale went out on a foul tip to Allen. Springfield meanwhile had reached second, and Quackenboss' single brought both Dillon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DARTMOUTH GAME. | 5/28/1885 | See Source »