Word: batting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whole, everything seems to be tending to a good freshman nine. The men are thoroughly imbued with a spirit of work and are regular in their attendance at exercise. On Thursdays and Saturday's the men play hand ball in the cage in squads of four, and bat the sand bags. On the other week days the chest weights and dumb bells are used. On Wednesdays all the candidates take a long walk. Every day a fast quarter mile is taken on the track in the gymnasium...
...making one of his old-time "long drives" yesterday, Willard broke his bat. This may be interpreted as meaning that Harvard will break all previous batting records during the coming season...
...wears glasses. Not dude glasses, nor goggles, nor the dapper gold-bowed spectacles, but great round moon-eyed glasses, glasses that would stew the brain of an ordinary man. And then he reads a little, you know. He is up with the lark; he is up with the bat; in fact he is never down. But speaking of being down, I remember a grind who was down once. He was making a call. His amorous eye glared from behind its glassy shield like a cat's eye in the dark. The conversation had flagged. Suddenly he brightened up. "Miss...
...replied that he intended to sit on it every morning, and apply for an excuse from chapel on the ground that he was waiting on a club. Judge of his consternation when he was gravely informed that the faculty never excused a man for merely having been on a bat. - Yale Record...
BIJOU THEATRE. - "The Bat Charmer...