Word: bases
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...certainly do, however, give great weight to them in our reading from day to day. When the one volume we especially desire is not in the library, - less hypothetical than its presence there, - and we stand in doubt before those drawers of titles, how often and naturally we base our choice on the remembrance of some chance conversation on books and authors! While such opinions, expressed in the carelessness of conversation or aired on the enthusiastic heights of an excited argument, are found to influence us so perceptibly, why should we deprive one another of the influence of those more...
...publications belongs the credit of originating a new and useful project, - for a system of regular intercollegiate correspondence. To this enterprise we gladly promise our aid, and hope to present to our readers in every number a few notes of what is going on in the department of base-ball, foot-ball, and boating, or other interesting events, at Cornell, at least. In time we may hear, in the same manner, from other colleges. As this plan has but just been formed, its success is doubtful; but if it succeeds, it can not but be beneficial to all the college...
...many intercollegiate contests. Last year, when twelve colleges announced their intention of sending crews to Springfield, the college papers were eagerly scanned for all news which could have any possible bearing on the condition of their crews. The interest in boating will be none the less this year, while base-ball, foot-ball, and cricket will excite more interest than ever...
...BASE BALL. - Boston, November 1. Bostons 19, Harvard...
...management of the paper, which places it more in the hands of graduates. The little Record is thus left the sole undergraduate organ. The best article in the Courant is the one on the Iconoclast. It demolishes that crazy sheet pretty thoroughly. We give a specimen: "The article on base ball is marvellously weak. The author has been so kind as to sum up his argument in syllogistic form, as follows: 'All men want to go to Skull and Bones; playing ball will not take them; hence, men will not play ball to get there.' Now there are only three...