Word: played
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...WOULD RATHER SEND MY SON TO THE WORST COLLEGE IN THE SOUTHEAST, WHERE MY LEADING-STRING WHIMS ARE HUMORED, THAN TO THE BEST UNIVERSITY IN THE NORTHWEST, WHERE HE WOULD BE ALLOWED TO PLAY IN THE STREETS AFTER NINE O'CLOCK, AND BE TAUGHT THAT EVERYTHING DEPENDED UPON DOING HIS DUTY AND BEHAVING HIMSELF." - Dr. M'Bosh
...University Nine will play a match game with the "Bostons," on May 21, at Boston, and with the "Princetons," on May 22, at Cambridge...
...Yale Freshmen have refused to play our Freshman Nine unless they are allowed to take Sheffield S. S. Freshman also. Our Academic Freshman Nine have sent a second challenge, offering to play against their University Freshman Nine on any grounds in Massachusetts or Connecticut, and giving them a liberal share of gate-money if they will play on the 17th. This day is not convenient for Yale, and, after a great consumption of the electrical fluid, no definite answer has at present been obtained...
...play was brought out at this theatre last week entitled "The New Magdalen." It is a dramatization by Wilkie Collins of his novel bearing the same name, but differs essentially from the novel in its conclusion, and was written expressly for Miss Leclercq. The plot is interesting and exciting throughout, although we must confess it weakens perceptibly during the long speeches, moral and sentimental, of the unclerical parson Vivian Gray. The character of Mercy Merrick gives Miss Leclercq an opportunity to display her magnificent dramatic powers. Her story is that of a young woman making every effort against the prejudices...
...natural, and many times effective, yet a certain heart-rending tone and Heep-like management of the hands leave behind a bad flavor, however slight. The Globe has always been noted for its elegant scenery, but it has produced nothing finer than the setting and appointments of this interesting play...