Word: bane
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Diligent inquiry has revealed to us the pleasant information that up to date the manager of the freshman nine has actually arranged for the large number of half-a-dozen baseball games, all of which are to be played on Saturdays. Overwork is not usually the bane of freshmen baseball managers, but perhaps the present one seems an exception. It is interesting, though perhaps a trifle provoking, to know that no games whatever have yet been arranged for other days of the week. Such laxity is certainly deserving of the severest censure. The baseball season has now been open...
...needs no comment. "Rescued from a watery grave! For particulars ask Smith." Here is something that plays vividly on the imagination. And too it imparts genealogical information. We learn with interest that a branch of the Smith family has been bold enough to go west and inflict its bane on western printers of college catalogues, who find the capital s's in their fonts far below the demand. "Arnold's father spent Sunday with him." Our sympathy for Arnold has no bounds. "Miss Daisy Lovejoy climbed the hill Saturday." A daisy on a hill-side is a picture that appeals...
...face of the professional stage. Everything that was done was governed by evident intelligence; the gestures, if not always graceful and forcible, were generally appropriate and had some meaning. In the reading of the lines, the ear was very seldom shocked by that false emphasis which is the bane of our stage-that ignoring of substantives and verbs, and throwing the main stress of the voice upon the minor parts of speech, Upon the whole, the reading was less constantly declamatory than we had expected and feared. Now and then a line, especially if it had a pathetic or humerous...
...figure in the ring, and a more successful one. than in the pulpit. At the end of last century and even at the beginning of the present one, it was thought no disgrace to "the cloth" to contest wrestling bouts in the north country. There was no money- that bane of all sports- to compete for. He wrestled for honor alone, and if "t' priest could thraw t' shepherd" more likely were his sermons to find their way to the hearts of his rustic parishioners. One clergyman, when he had got up in years, was wont to boast...
...that chain of fords with which the fair host of the amazons is engirding the English universities, I find that in the happy families of your mixed American universities out West, they are studying it already." This is certainly a sanguine view. Hitherto Greek has seemed to be the bane of the female race, and it is certainly new to believe that out of all this struggle between Greek and science will come any such complete and sweeping victory as this. Certainly there is bound to be a reaction from the onslaughts which the classics have received of late, though...