Word: fielding
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...because other men were to compete for prizes in those arts. Boating, ball-playing, and other forms of exercise, are the favorites by fits and starts, and depend largely for their popularity upon the prominence which is given to them on set occasions. The boat-house and the ball-field lie outside of our daily course, and if not reminded of them we are apt to forget their existence. But books are in our hands every day, and by daily use we grow fond of them. The love of learning is of slow growth, the result of constant mental improvement...
...already made widely known his views upon College discipline, and it is not unnatural that he should now wish to lead into the arena his well-tamed pupil, moulded to his own sweet will, and fully crammed for the conflict. Let us leave them in undisputed possession of the field...
This is very hard to comprehend. We see that the first line might refer to a family scrimmage. But nobody ever heard of a field - and a sloping field at that - floating by a girl's eyes; at least, in this part of the country...
...though unconvinced of the efficacy of the proposed plan, we are glad to see such a subject agitated and discussed, and to know that the enthusiasm and wide-awake spirit which Princeton has manifested of late is not confined to the ball-field and the in futuro river...
Then o'er the field our torn flag tossed...