Word: adds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Add the firm name Paul A. Garey and Co., Province Court, Boston, as suppliers of statuary, at from ten to twenty per cent. discount...
...method, particularly his own of pitching the ball, which will soon be learned by the rest of the team and consequently no good will come of the practice. I once heard an old ball player say "take an ordinary fielding nine, but all sure and hard hitters, add the finest pitcher and catcher in the league and it would beat almost any nine set before it. While this statement may be slightly exaggerated it has "much of method" in it for the strength of a team lies in its "battery" and its ability to hit good pitching. This ability...
...possibilities is likely, therefore he must do it thinking it makes him of more importance to be known as a member of some swell or noted club. This is all wrong. No club stands better than the Harvard Athletic Association in either of these respects and it does not add to a man's worth if he lets his vanity get the better of him by trying to exhibit himself as a member of various organizations. In games where Harvard students are likely to be present as spectators they would like to know what men entered belong to the college...
...oarsmen, some of whom have already obtained everlasting glory and honor in Harvard's boating history, in competing with men of comparatively little experience. I would therefore like to propose to their captain to have him challenge the victorious crew, and thus, instead of discouraging us at the outset, add to the pleasure of the entire college and the class crews in particular...
...learn that the great university of Berlin is preparing to add a department in dentistry to its other courses. In one subject at least Harvard has preceded what is perhaps the greatest University of Europe, for the dental school connected with this university has been established for several years. But dentistry is largely an American science, and that European institutions should follow the lead of those of America in adding instruction in this branch to their other professional branches is therefore only natural...