Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Jarvis Field is complicated to an extreme. The baseball men maintain, in brief, that to give Jarvis entirely to tennis means, considering this year only, that all decent practice-ground will be taken from the class nines, and, considering future years, that the nine will be put two weeks back of Yale and Princeton in out-of-door practice. Moreover Mr. White, the graduate athletic manager, is willing to take the responsibility of vouchsafing fifteen additional courts on Holmes and Jarvis without disturbance to the diamonds...
...word was given at three minutes past six. '94 got the best of the start, but '96 was rapidly gaining and would have passed them in a few more strokes when they were called back by the referee's whistle. No. 7 in the junior boat had jumped his slide and a fresh start was taken. This time the three crews shot out as one boat, and remained together to the quarter mile mark. Here '95 dropped the stroke to 30 per minute, while '94 and '96 kept steadily at it, the first rowing 36 and the latter 34 strokes...
...chances are that Hollister will not row, as he has an injured arm. If he does not row his place will be filled by M. Newell '94. Kernan has been moved from bow to No. 3. Lee, substitute, has been put in at two and Cornwall moved back to bow. The order will be: Bow, Cornwall; 2, Lee; 3, Kernan; 4, Sleeper; 5, Phelps; 6, Sprague; 7, Hollister (Newell '94); stroke, Irving...
...never seen; makes them feel what, without the sympathy of his more penetrating sentiment, they had never felt. It seems the revelation of a new heaven and new earth, and to contain in itself its own justification. Then suddenly recollecting his duty, he shuts the window, calls them back to their tasks, and is equally well pleased and more discursive in enforcing on them the truth that the moral of all this is that in order to be happy they must be virtuous...
...parallel-I turned from him to Petrarch and the sentimentalists. The comparison enables us to feel more keenly the difference between real heartwood and veneer, between a poem made out of a true life, and a false life attempted to be made into a poem. I shall turn back today to a poem as sincere as that of Dante-in some senses as national as his, but which fails of effect because it is deficient in art; whose images are as vivid as Dante's, but differ in this that they are all presented on the plane of the actual...