Word: mannerizes
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...Nine have had to face this spring. Carl caught very well, and Cogswell played first base without error. Woodhead, at third base, won deserved applause by his good stopping and swift short-arm throwing. Blogg caught some hard flies in centre field in a very easy and graceful manner...
...game, played during the past week by our Nine and the Manchesters, is the most astonishing development of base-ball possibilities yet recorded. Although the result was largely due to the remarkable efficiency of the pitching and the extreme deadness of the ball, yet it showed in a striking manner, and under the severest test, the superior fielding powers of our Nine, as well as their steady nerve and excellent discipline. The luck seemed to be entirely with the fielders as against the batsmen, but this always seems to be the way in a game where good fielding is done...
...management of the game. The view of the ladies on the lower benches was obstructed for some time, and general discomfort resulted to all who had tickets. We do not believe that the trouble was wholly due to the police, who have hitherto done their part in a satisfactory manner; but the officers of the Foot-Ball Club are rather to blame for not having given the police proper and explicit orders, and for not having seen to it themselves that their orders were properly executed...
...present number of the Packer Quarterly resembles its predecessors in matter and manner, with one exception; for even in its most sublime childishness, Packer never before equalled in atrocity the title of its opening essay (or review), "Charles Lamb (Lamb Hash...
When a college Faculty treat students in the manner we have mentioned, they cannot expect to subdue the boyish and rowdy element which is so prominent in almost all the smaller colleges. The cane and beaver rushes, the Cornell "stackings," the thousand and one absurdities which make up the amusements of such students, will remain in favor so long as the Faculties encourage them by treating their perpetrators as if they were committing a fault and not an imbecility. When a Cornell student "stacks" a room, or a Union student indulges in a cane rush, to wear a foolscap would...