Word: worn
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...machines with which the various class crews have to work at the gymnasium are entirely worn out, and it has become the imperative duty of the authorities, whoever they may be, to provide a new set. It is utterly impossible to do satisfactory work on rowing weights that are so far gone that they cannot be made to offer the slightest resistance, and which, therefore, men cannot possibly handle as they would an oar. These winter months are too valuable to be thrown away; the crews that use them to the best advantage always show it in the class races...
...Batchelder, Chew, Earle and Tripp. The crew is in charge of W. Alexander who coached last year's freshman crew. About thirty football men have handed in their names and will begin work soon but they are as yet unclassified. All these crews are working on one set of worn out weights so that the work is far from satisfactory...
...first editorial relates, as the writer says, to the well worn subject of giving cups as prizes in athletic competitions. Prizes naturally lose a good deal of their value if distributed a year or even six months after they have been won, and the principles put forward by the Advocate, that the prizes should be bought before the event, so that every competitor will know that after the event the winner will receive his prize, is an excellent remedy for the evil complained...
...urging all to be careful not to walk on the edges of paths, which intersect the college yard. Last spring no such warning was given and the result was that towards the end of April the yard presented a rather wild appearance: corners were trodden down, edges were worn off, whole plots of grass had disappeared. The college authorities naturally saw themselves compelled to restore the yard to its usual well kept condition, but this fact should not be cause for unnecessary vandalism...
Roger S. Baldwin, son of Prof. Simeon E. Baldwin, is a recently-initiated member of Phi Beta Kappa at Yale who wears the key which was worn by one of the founders of the society. The key has remained in the Baldwin family for over 100 years, having been handed down from father to son through the several generations...