Word: accidental
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Amherst must, however, be congratulated on having a faculty so broad minded as to recognize the fact that students are not boys, to be trusted only within range of the proctor's eye, but men, capable of governing themselves, and of exercising surveillance over the few unruly school boys, who...
Harris, pitcher of the Amherst College nine, has been dangerously ill, owing to an accident received in the laboratory, but it is not expected that this will interfere with his appearance upon the diamond.
...omitting base ball from this list, does not say, unfortunately, whether he places the game among the new, or the disreputable sports. His opinion, however, can be conjectured from the fact that bicycle riding is put on his list. This omission of base ball may, of course, have been accidental on the president's part; but, considering the care with which the list is made out, and the prominence of the sport, such an accident seems unlikely. We shall look with interest for future developments of the president's idea...
against being the sport and plaything of every accident and passion, is not the petulant fretting of a born slave, but the noble lamentation of a captive king.
D. B. Chamberlain, '86, met with a painful accident in the gymnasium, yesterday afternoon. While practicing the pole-vault he suffered a severe dislocation of the ankle. After a doctor had been summoned, Mr. Chamberlain was removed to his room, where the dislocation was reduced.