Word: circusing
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...rumored that all the Yale professors have attended the circus now exhibiting in New Haven. It is so seldom that they have a respectable exhibition in New Haven that students and professors turn out in large numbers...
...Boston Union base-ball grounds have been leased to Barnum's circus...
...season of 1867 opened with a game between Harvard and "Beacons," 67-20, in which "Parker made three magnificent home runs." In the second game, with the "Sonnets," this same Parker has a "great deal of enthusiasm wasted on him;" for "besides performing his usual course of circus-feats to amuse the spectators and the 'muckers,' and turning over the fence on his head, he made four stunning home runs, and played his base perfectly." The score in this match, 56-4, led the Lowells who had only defeated this same club, 47-29, to reconsider the remark of their...
...hotel. For an account of the manner of this return, the meeting, disarming, restoration and pacification of the belligerant policeman; the storming of the ball-room; the multifarious deeds at the hotel, and the many humorous events of the night, it can only be said with the circus posters, "See small bills," by which can be understood that each and every member of both societies can and will make of himself a special reporter and relate interesting tales of the trip. The next morning saw most of the party on board the Boston train, and no less disposed to enjoy...
From four o'clock until dark Monday, Wednesday and Friday are the hours for regular practice. The skill shown by the riders is such that if the future A. B. will be of no avail in obtaining a livelihood, a place in the lists of the itinerant circus will always be open. There are generally three or four players on a side, but the way in which the ponies gallop about the field makes it seem as if there were many more. Last Friday the play, influenced perhaps by the pressure of a number of spectators, was exceptionally fine. Morris...