Word: exceptionality
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...Catalogue shows students from every State in the Union except Nebraska, Oregon and Virginia. Also from the District of Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Armenia in Asia, the Bahamas, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prussia...
...term "block" ball is restricted so that no block can occur except from a batted or thrown ball, no pitched or passed ball being open to a "block." In other words, a ball delivered by the pitcher to the bat cannot become a blocked ball if stopped by an outsider...
Before the introduction of the present system of assigning rooms by lot a very curious method existed - or one which seems curious in view of the present system. The rooms were assigned by classes, freshmen having ground floor rooms in all buildings except Holworthy, the whole of which was reserved for seniors, with the exception of those rooms directly under proctors, which were given to freshmen. All of the freshmen in the different buildings who held the rooms under the proctor, got their rooms free, or for a nominal sum, in consideration of services rendered to the proctors...
...Constantly the Yale snapper-back and other of the rushers would make fouls by which advantage would be gained. The referee would almost as constantly decide that he could grant no foul, his statement generally being that he had seen none. Understand, no charge is made against Mr. Cabot, except that at times he seemed rattled and inefficient. His mistakes were chiefly due to the methods employed by Yale...
...mile run, handicap; half-mile run, handicap; one-mile run, scratch (for those who never won a prize at this distance); quarter-mile hurdle-race, handicap; one-mile walk, handicap; and ten-mile run, handicap. Silver cups will be given as prizes to first and second in each event except the ten-mile run, for which cups will be given to first, second and third...