Word: backed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Nine played their second game with the Bostons on the above date. Tyler being laid up with a strained back, Cutler, '75, was substituted for him in left field. Barker, '73, played third base, and White caught. The playing during the latter half of the game was very pretty. Annan made a fine left-hand catch, and Kent a difficult fly while running with the ball. Estabrooks led at the bat, and Cutler gave good promise of being a valuable acquisition to the field...
...year of work winds up, it is very natural to look back on what has been neglected, forgotten, or actually learnt. Many will regret that the last has been with them the least of the three, and feel that a mistake has been made in the eight months past, - that too much has been aimed at, and consequently too little accomplished. These will perhaps feel the force of a few words on what is becoming so common at Harvard, a fashion of trying to get a general idea of all the elective studies, rather than an accurate knowledge...
...kept in Mass. 27 might add to the wonder of what is coming next. This shall be an exceedingly large pair of spectacles with various names upon it, and which formerly did service perhaps as a sign. A map of the world, completely covered with names on its back, tells us this transmittendum has seen service. For variety, a snake-skin from a corner room in Hollis will answer the purpose; though why this should be a pleasing object of contemplation is a mystery. Add now a pair of clasped hands with names neatly carved on them; this...
...College Carpenter, closely scrutinizing the recitation-room in order to find something which would increase the "General Average" fund, happened upon a very neat piece of workmanship. The room was the recitation-room of a Professor in Metaphysics. A sort of little drawer had been fitted in the back of a seat in such a manner that the work could hardly be detected; applying a chisel, it was opened, a penny and piece of paper were found; the latter bore the following: "Transmittendum. Whereas our instructor is fully persuaded he does not exist, he must 'see through a glass darkly...
...stern practicality, when men had time to admire the beautiful, and each race, as it emerged from barbarism, turned instinctively to the representation of beauty as the natural expression of its more refined feelings, there existed what may well be called the "golden ages" of art. Thus we look back to the age of Pericles, at Athens, the Augustine age, at Rome, the Renaissance, in Italy, and the palmy days of art in the Netherlands, as the most pleasing epochs in the world's history. It was then that the love of the beautiful reigned supreme, uncontaminated by the more...