Word: ball
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fully of its merits would require much more space. As has already been said, it is remarkable for the vivid, and, on the whole, correct idea which it gives us of Harvard men and Harvard life. Some of the scenes are particularly well drawn, - the account of the foot-ball match, for instance, that of the boat-race, and the description of Class Day. The tone of the book is thoroughly good and manly, always excepting the love-scenes, which give little pleasure and excite still less sympathy...
...Nine, chafed by the severe criticism of senseless writers, and ridiculed by would-be authorities on base-ball matters, has proven itself capable of deeds surpassing all the former triumphs which Yale has gained on the ball-field." - Yale News, May 27, 1878. Amended June...
...following is the batting average of the University Base-Ball Champions...
Juniors - Base-ball books, regatta printing, billiard scores, society invitations, ball cards, tickets of every description, theatrical programmes in all languages...
...about 2.30 P. M. on Commencement Day the august procession of the Alumni entered Memorial Hall to the tune of "Johnny Morgan." The hall was well filled, though most of the recent Alumni had been attracted to the ball-game; and the exercises were undisturbed by any noisy demonstrations, or by any attempts on the part of the Sophomores to obtain a share of the "equal feast." At the close of the dinner, Professor John Langdon Sibley was conducted to the head of the table to lead the singing of the seventy-eighth psalm, after which Dr. Samuel Eliot...