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...usual skill, and by his wild pitches and Yale's heavy batting, the game was lost. Considering what a strong pitcher Mr. Hutchinson is, our Nine did very good work at the bat. We have no cause to feel discouraged, and are confident Yale will find it no easy task to win the next game...
Depends the task to prove himself a poet...
...Furnivall and Dowden and our own Professor Child may be "a very erratic kite," but it is pardonable. perhaps, to think otherwise. It might be well for the Advocate to leave denunciation of that society in the hands of Mr. Swinburne, whose foulmouthed Billingsgate particularly fits him for the task. But it is not necessary that we should undertake its defence. The inoffensive item in the Crimson, that has unfortunately aroused our cotemporary's editorial wrath, was only meant to suggest that a club formed at Harvard would do well to ask its members to join the New Shakspere Society...
Fold the white hands : her task is done...
...income of $1,500 or more. And of these two men, the former is tolerably faithful in his attendance at the building of which he has charge; while the latter repeatedly absents himself and neglects his duty. Not to draw invidious comparisons, what professor has so easy a task...