Word: brights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ease." The Yale freshmen were jubilant, in the Yale sense of the word. After their nine had again demolished the Harvard freshmen, and of course there was no doubt of that, they proposed to challenge the Harvard University nine and demolish them. The day for the second game dawned bright and clear*, and the Yale nine arrived accompanied by a noisy crowd of demonstrative blue handkerchiefs. The result of the game was 11 to 4 in favor of Harvard; base hits, Harvard 12, Yale 9. The University nine never received the proposed challenge...
...have once before regaled our readers with some choice specimens of Western college journalism. We cannot resist the temptation to again hold up the scintillations of one of these bright children of genius. The following "personals" appear in a late number of the College Transcript, Ohio, Wesleyan University...
...Clipper's account of the recent inter-collegiate sports states that among the colors displayed by the lady spectators "the pale blue and white of Columbia and the bright crimson of Harvard were largely in the ascendant...
...luck; but owing to the work of an energetic captain and the enthusiastic co-operation of the other members of the nine she will put a nine in the field which we are sure will do her justice. In the beginning of the year Harvard's prospects were unusually bright; but in one of the first games two of the most valuable men were disabled. Winslow, upon whom every one relied to fill the pitcher's position, was taken ill and compelled to resign his position to Nichols, who, although a good pitcher, lacks experience in that capacity. Nichols...
...consultation of physicians yesterday revealed the fact that Senator Anthony is suffering from Bright's disease complicated with heart disease...