Word: haired
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...toss and decided to go to the bat. The batting of the team as a whole was very steady. Brown got the top score, 44, by hard, clean hitting. Sullivan also played well for his 14. The bowling of Mystic was well on the wicket, that of O'Hair especially so. The fielding of the home XI was also good...
HARVARD, 1ST INNINGS.R. D. Brown, c. Perkins, b. O'Hair...
...spirit from the pressure of its material fetters, reached later on a painful degree of madness, of which the case of Archbishop Becket gives a most disgusting illustration. When the corpse of this prelate was stripped, the whole body down to the knees was found to be encased in hair cloth. This cover was so fastened together as to admit of being readily taken off for his daily scourgings, of which the portion inflicted on the day previous to his death was still apparent in the stripes on his skin. These marvelous proofs of austerity were increased by the sight...
...thronged with students. But there is something better yet at Harvard. It takes more than money to make a college-that is, a college of the future. Wisdom cannot be bought. Experience costs time and tears. Sectarian colleges, and probably all others, have their squabbling age, an age of hair-pulling and scratching, an age of petty jealousies, rivalries and quarrels. If any man doubts that, let him come here and read the story of Harvard's childhood. It took two hundred years to outgrow it. It makes a curious record, this story of the Puritan popes who wanted...
...come out to Cambridge at all this fall, else he could not have failed to notice that the management of the foot-ball team has been better this year than it has for a long time. With all due respect to the mature years-and perhaps gray hair-of our sapient friend, I cannot help thinking that he does not know what he is talking about. He says that the players have been "constantly changed about during the past fortnight," and that, when he was asked "who were going to play against Princeton on Saturday," he had to guess...