Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...presenting his heart with his banker's account...
...offer. Theirs was not a defeat, it was a rout, which can only be wiped out by a corresponding victory next time. But what were the causes of this Waterloo? Dieu sait. For the numberless fielding errors only bad playing, hard luck, and general demoralization and discouragement can account for them. As to the batting - or rather the absence of batting - we must hold Carter largely responsible for the result. Not a base hit was made, - a record which Harvard has never before made, and let us hope that this will be the last she will have to mourn...
...Phillips Brooks was prevented from preaching to the S. Paul's Society on Monday on account of important business...
...doubled up on Dow's foul tip to Carl, and the latter's good throw to Cogswell. Tyng, after two men were out, gave Mincher his base on strikes. Say sent him to second by a high fly to Dow, who, being unable to see the ball on account of the sun, allowed it to drop at his feet. Dailey then retired on a well-caught foul tip to Tyng. Wright missed a foul bound in the fifth, after a long run. Dow made a base-hit in the sixth, and reached second on Cogswell's muff; Wright had previously...
...care about Turkey? The other day I thought I ought to take some interest in it; so I sought out a newspaper that had a huge map on one side of it, and went to work to find out all about it. I began by reading an account of the Russian advance; the first town I saw mentioned was Kars. Keeping to my intention of getting up the war thoroughly, I turned to the map to see where this heathen citadel was situated. After looking for a long time in the wrong place, I was successful, - a result which...