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...Niagara Index is original, as usual. It has a good deal to say about the "lenity and fairness that characterized the Inquisition...
...University Nine left Cambridge for Princeton Thursday evening, 13th inst., intending to play the New Haven professionals on Friday and the Princeton University Nine on Saturday. Owing to some difficulty in obtaining accommodations at New Haven, the men did not get a very good night's rest, and in consequence, did not make as good a display as they should have done in Friday's game. They were met in the morning by several of the Yale Nine, who very politely drove them about the city, showing them among other things their new boat-house, a very fine building which...
Several years ago, our malignant contemporary, the Corinth Daily Herald, indulged in considerable cheap wit at the expense of the great and good Socrates. We will admit that as a base-ball player his career was hardly successful; but even his bitterest enemies must confess that nature certainly intended him for a clown, and we defy Corinth or any other Peloponnesian village to produce his equal in that capacity...
...Whitney and Hosford. As a whole the farce was decidedly well done. The double quartette followed this farce with several College songs, all of which were well received by the audience. The singing showed that the members had bestowed considerable practice on the pieces and that there are several good voices in the Society. The entertainment concluded with "Pipkins's Rustic Retreat," in which Mr. Sargent had ample opportunity to do himself justice. As "Mr. Brittle Pipkins," the retired crockery merchant, he was all that could be desired of anybody, and several times during the play his acting was warmly...
...demoralized, and allowed their opponents to score three unearned runs, offsetting it by but one for themselves. This left the score 6 to a against us, with Princeton jubilant. Now began one of the most exciting up-hill games I ever witnessed. The Harvards settled to the work in good earnest, and the way they played against such odds was perfect, inasmuch as they prevented their opponents from scoring, and commenced to score themselves. The result was that the game closed with the score 9 to 7 in our favor, and it is not too much to say that they...