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{{Chronology Entry | {{Chronology Entry | ||
|Year=1820 | |Year=1820 | ||
|Year Suffix=s | |Year Suffix=s | ||
|Year Number=21 | |||
|Headline=College Prez Was a Klutz at Ball and Cricket | |||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Country=United States | |||
|Coordinates=41.11774399999999, -73.4081575 | |||
|State=CT | |||
|City=Norwalk | |||
|Game=Cricket | |Game=Cricket | ||
|Text=<p>"I could not jump the length of my leg nor run as fast as a kitten . . . . At ball and cricket I 'followed in the chase not like a hound that hunts, but one that fills up the cry.'" </p> | |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective | ||
<p>Harriet Raymond Lloyd, ed., | |Age of Players=Youth | ||
|Text=<p>"I could not jump the length of my leg nor run as fast as a kitten . . . . At ball and cricket I 'followed in the chase not like a hound that hunts, but one that fills up the cry.'"</p> | |||
<p>-- John Howard Raymond, later President of Vassar College.</p> | |||
|Sources=<p>Harriet Raymond Lloyd, ed., <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Life and Letters of John Howard Raymond, Late President of Vassar College</span> (Ford, Howard and Hulbert, New York, 1881), page 38. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <em>Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 34. Accessed 11/16/2008 via Google Books search for <john howard raymond>. Raymond, born in New York in 1814, summered as a boy in Norwalk CT.</p> | |||
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| Text | "I could not jump the length of my leg nor run as fast as a kitten . . . . At ball and cricket I 'followed in the chase not like a hound that hunts, but one that fills up the cry.'" -- John Howard Raymond, later President of Vassar College. |
| Sources | Harriet Raymond Lloyd, ed., Life and Letters of John Howard Raymond, Late President of Vassar College (Ford, Howard and Hulbert, New York, 1881), page 38. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 34. Accessed 11/16/2008 via Google Books search for <john howard raymond>. Raymond, born in New York in 1814, summered as a boy in Norwalk CT. |
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