Word: ball
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...order of the Board of Directors aspirants for the base ball nine will practise every Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon at 2.30. Since boating is on the decline, base-ball and foot-ball are to be made the specialties for the coming season...
...foot-ball interest this spring is centred in the game with Princeton, to be played on Jarvis Field, at 3 P.M., Saturday, April 28. Tickets for the game may be obtained at 2 Beck Hall or 48 Matthews, and at Whiton's. The team has not yet been definitely selected. The captain especially desires all who have played on the fifteen to improve every opportunity for practice. Practice together has been the chief cause of former successes, and is now more needed than anything else. Mr. Barlow, '79, has been elected treasurer in place of Mr. Russell, resigned...
...base-ball prospects for this season are exceedingly bright. Through the energy of the Captain of the Nine, Very good practice-grounds have been made out of the unpromising foot-ball field. Seats have been erected and comfortable arrangements thereby secured for the return college games. The season has opened auspiciously. The efficacy of the winter's Gymnasium practice is shown by the excellent form in which the Nine shows itself thus early in the season. The new mask has proved a complete success, since it entirely protects the face and head, and adds greatly to the confidence...
...readers, of the matters discussed in the editorial columns, and the result is, that after reading a long editorial, one has not the faintest idea what is the subject under discussion. As cases in point we note "the treaty between the two Halls," and the new base-ball policy. It may be said that every Princeton student knows the terms of the treaty and the details of the new policy; but this assumption on the part of a newspaper is entirely unjustifiable. A brief outline of the matter discussed would greatly add to the pleasure of the outside reader, while...
...those of the man overhead whose rowing-weights send forth a most distressing discord, half rumble, half squeak, or, still worse, whose religious enthusiasm finds its vent in practising Tabernacle tunes on a reed-organ. No sane person would hesitate to decide that "Just in time for Lanergan's ball" rendered on a good hand-organ by jist the very boy that knows all about that same himsilf, is more worthy of hearing than a disjointed howl of "Where art thou now, my beloved?" by the unmusical soul who comes up stairs taking three steps to each word. And there...