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...although O'Rourke led off with a base hit, his temerity in attempting to steal second rendered him an easy victim to Tyng and Sawyer. A heavy fall of rain rendered the continuance of the game an impossibility, and put a termination to one of the most exciting games ever witnessed and by far the best ever played by either of the contesting nines. The heavy batting, and at the same time the effective pitching, as may be seen by the number of players who struck out on either side, rendered the game more interesting than even the twenty-four...
...would also like to call attention to the grumblers, a class whose opinion on base-ball is usually of little worth; they are ever complaining of our defeats, taking it as a matter of course that we ought always to win, and never considering that the clubs who beat us are usually composed of men who devote their entire time to base-ball, and, as an extra stimulus for good play, receive salaries in proportion to the value of their services...
THERE is a type of man that must be well known to every one who has ever been long at Harvard, for if human nature is as unchangeable as the philosophers would have us believe, this type has had its representatives in every class, ay, in every section, since the founding of the old University...
...returns the gleeful Spider, while the sobered Fly goes to the recitation and sits it out in sadness. The day is spoiled for him. The instructor is slower than ever, the pull on the river will be dreary, the Memorial Hall dinner will be cold. Such is the misery that Spider causes daily...
...Quick!" I yelled; "the ammonia." She handed it, and I poured the whole into the remnants of my pocket. There was an explosion, a woman's scream, a blinding smoke. When this smoke cleared away I was alone, and wearing the most demoralized suit of clothes that ever a poco dreamed...