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When the class of 1866 of Williams College returns to Williamstown, two weeks hence, for its fiftieth reunion, Faculty, and friends will look with admiring awe upon the surviving members of the team which won the first intercollegiate baseball game ever played. Modern Williams players will be instigated to emulate the example of these pioneers of the national pastime, the victors over Harvard by a score of 12 to 9 in the Lexington of the college game...
...rather than discourage, an appreciative audience. Though April showers sometimes drip in Cambridge until June, such a cause for return to the traditional location is at least improbable. Unless their spirits are dampened, the more exhilarating surroundings may inspire in the participants some degree of enjoyment as well as awe. Instead of remaining in the graduate's memory a blot upon the single truly romantic period of his life in college, this day may become a refreshing climax for the most sentimental Senior...
...them. Hence it happened that I then formed no personal association with my classmates, and always felt remote and as if I presented the picture of a forlorn little fellow who ought to have been at home. To this day I have never got over an awe of them that I have never had of anybody else. . . . I recollect no instruction which was not of the most perfunctory and indifferent sort, unless possibly it was that of Professor Cooke in chemistry and Professor Child in English. The only impression made on me by one professor was that of a pair...
...American who has read Dana's 'Speeches in Stirring Times' there are thousands throughout the English-speaking world who have shared with the boyish Dana his pleasure in the 'perfect silence of the sea' and 'the early breaking of day on the wide ocean,' his awe at 'the cold and angry skies' and 'long heavy ugly seas' off the Cape, who have seen with him the 'malignant' brightness of the lightning in the tropical storm, the yellow California sunshine and the gray California fog, and the slow stately motion of the groaning Antartic icebergs with the whirling snow about their...
Every member of the editorial aggregation played in major league style. "Steamship" Hall held the opposing stick-wielders in awe-struck submissiveness, while "Red" stiles hung onto his hot stuff with well-nigh sublime efficiency. In the field, "Wild West" Ingram brought exclamations of delight to the lips of every beholder, and accepted the most difficult chances with utter sang froid. Prexy Graves was a demon at the bat, and scampered around the bags like a yearling gazelle; and "Duffy" Lewis came through with a three-bagger every once in a while...