Word: also
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...White marked the fielding of the Harvards in this inning. The fifth inning was a "blinder" for both sides; and in the sixth, after the Bostons had been retired for two runs, the Harvards went in, and, by a little fumbling on the part of their opponents, aided also by White's two-base hit to centre, secured two runs. Thus the game was still a tie at the beginning of the seventh inning. But now the professionals begin to realize their danger, and, bending to their work, succeed for the first time in making any headway against Hooper...
...addition to its social characteristics, it holds an exhibition every month at which are exhibited chiefly home productions, but also valuable pictures in the possession of individuals. In this way a healthy emulation is excited, and works of merit brought to the notice of the public in a very attractive manner. It is hoped that this method of exhibition will do away with the custom of jockeying pictures, so common among picture-dealers, and so detrimental to the interests of the artist. The recent exhibitions of the club have been highly successful, the last one particularly so. The natural faults...
...Yale, also, has had such contests. The programme at one of these which took place about a year ago, consisted of long walking and running races, short dashes of two hundred yards or so, running and standing, high and long jumps, hurdle racing, and throwing the base ball...
...MODEST Muffin objects to playing ball in the Yard, because it is too public! Many have found it to be one private also...
...such drawbacks exist as compulsory recitations, and the other disturbing influences of college, with which there are none not somewhat familiar, is it too much to ask of our professors, that they make their class-room as entertaining as possible; that they impress not only the facts, but hint also what can be inferred from these facts? In the classics, especially, is there room for grumbling; in history there is less occasion for it; elective philosophy I have not tried. Modern languages, as required studies, were the merest farces; as electives, some have a bad reputation. To be sure, these...