Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...must be adopted. The warning of what may happen ought to be sufficient to guarantee that there will be no further abuse of the present privileges. If it is not, however, we can safely say, that the threat of closing the gallery will not be found to be a hoax, and that the Board of Directors will adopt that or any other measure that may seem necessary to accomplish their purpose...
Within the memory of the undergraduate, as often as the base-ball season has come around, the hoax of the second nine has been revived, the plan approved thoroughly, and by the middle of the season it has been laid away to delight a long-suffering college the following year. And yet we dare to hope that the plan proposed by Captain Dean to the candidates yesterday will be carried out, and work a change in base ball to correspond to that which new methods have brought about in foot ball. Our standing in base ball has always been different...