Word: serious
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Yale Nine, says the Courant, has shown great carelessness in its practice games, and much dissatisfaction is felt at the two serious defeats - 4 to 0 and 7 to 0 - which the nine has lately received; the fielding record has been good, but the nine is weak at the bat. The reviews in this number are mild but judicious, and the Yalensicula column contains fully as many thrilling personalities as usual...
...part of the club fours and sixes; now they have deserted these posts, where as much energy is needed as the College can supply, for a sport that will do themselves little physical good, and can never reflect any credit on the College. Is it not a pity that serious Athletics should be set aside by able-bodied men for a game that is at best intended for a seaside pastime? The game is well enough for lazy or weak men, but men who have rowed or taken part in a nobler sport should blush to be seen playing Lawn...
...There would be no fitness in their giving their attention to music that needs neither of these qualifications for its entirely successful performance. As to whether the outside world craves for "real college songs" when it comes to a Glee Club concert, we think this a matter open to serious doubt. Of course there are always a few people of depraved tastes in any assembly whatever, but of these we need take no account, especially in such an audience as a concert of the Glee Club would be sure to draw to Sanders Theatre...
...somewhere in Iowa, publishes the third part of a poem (to be continued), entitled "The Tide of Time." It is apparently a judicious combination of "Paradise Lost" and "Queen Mab"! but after deep consideration we are still unable to decide whether it is a parody, or intended to be serious. "I'll nip the canker in the bud" is a pleasing, though at first sight a startling figure; nipping cankerworms must be an agreeable entertainment on a spring morning in the country. The gentleman who makes this remark in the poem, is - Well, his name is not usually mentioned...
...these, it seems, was to close the Hall entirely, a course which experience has proved would result in a debt of $1,000 that would have to be made up by an increased rate of board during the succeeding months. It might also result in a more serious loss, namely, in that of the cooks, who are too good to be rashly parted with. To keep the Hall open, and to charge all expenses on those who boarded in it during the recess would be putting too heavy a burden upon those who remained. The weekly pay-roll is about...