Word: basely
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...BASE-BALL, Cricket, and Boating give amusement and exercise to many; still there are others, not especially expert at these, who would be glad to enter into out-door sports where skill and muscle could be shown...
Yale, also, has had such contests. The programme at one of these which took place about a year ago, consisted of long walking and running races, short dashes of two hundred yards or so, running and standing, high and long jumps, hurdle racing, and throwing the base ball...
...reminded that Spring has really come. The shop windows are placarded with "Spring Openings," several vernal poems have been offered for publication, and groups of Freshmen can be seen playing marbles and pitch-penny. But to us surer and more important signs are the small crowd with cricket and base-ball bats, that move toward Jarvis daily after dinner, and the smaller crowd that direct their steps toward the boat-houses just before supper...
...Juniors on Fast day and showed much individual good play. The defeat on that occasion may perhaps be excused when we consider Captain Perry's accident, and the fact that the composition of the Nine on that occasion was more the result of chance than selection. But energy in base-ball is not manifested by Freshmen alone. Our University Nine practises every day, and would have opened the regular season last Saturday by a game with the Bostons had the weather permitted. Though several new men will have to be taken in to fill vacant places, the Nine will...
...would have us dissect each picture; and, if we find a superfluous line or a bit of avoidable coloring, class any painting in which it may appear among the works of base and degraded artists, without regard to its general effect and the impression it produces upon...