Word: actually
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would be difficult to decide whether base-ball or cricket is the more scientific so far as the relations of the batsman and the bowler or pitcher are concerned. I note that so far as the actual contest between ball and ball is concerned, the two games seem fairly equal. Though in base-ball pitching, a more difficult scientific problem is involved, it cannot be said that the play to meet the curving ball is more difficult than the play to meet the, varying pitch and break of well-bowled balls at cricket. In base-ball curves there...
...first, the healthful instinct is to cry, Away with it all; give young men their heads; let them go to work without professional guidance and solve the problem as they best can by themselves! This is. however, the dictum of persons like ourselves who are no longer in the actual fight and can afford to assume an impartial and most wise attitude toward the contest, swayed as we are by considerations entirely different from those which met us when, boys in red and blue, we were of the battle...
...give half of every day to Harvard College, where so many men are ignorant of the fact that he is here among us and taking, as a Harvard man himself, a deep and daily interest all the men as a whole. It cannot be indifference, for the actual count, day after day, proves that the percentage of men, as regards the total enrollment of the college, who are present in chapel, is larger than that of the populace of our large cities. Still, were Dr. Brooks so widely known throughout our country and abroad, to visit us from...
...variation of a form of ball played by the Romans; one great difference being that with them the ball had always to be returned before it struck the ground - in fact, "volleyed." There is no very definite description of it, but it would seem that, although there was no actual net as now, there was practically an imaginary one; and at the present time the Italians play a game called Pallone, that is probably derived from the same source...
...decision of Judge Sadler, though not at present in writing final as to the actual issuing of the mandamus against the faculty, which has not yet been done, may be considered as law relating to methods of trying offenders for breach of college discipline, until it may be neutralized by some other legal decision...