Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...PETITION sent by our Nine to the Base Ball League asking that they be allowed to play the Bostons on the Boston grounds has not been granted. League clubs cannot play other than League clubs on the grounds belonging to such club...
These are all the college games arranged, except those with Brown. Though letters have been sent there no answer has yet been received, and further arrangements cannot be made until information is received from this college...
...German student, on the other hand, is hampered by no marks, no routine, no surveillance, no compulsory recitations; he is not treated like a school-boy, and hence does not behave like one. He cannot calculate what per cent he must obtain in order to scrape through. He must either leave or drop out, either succeed or fail. Hence he does not "cram" for an examination with matter which he will throw away afterward, but studies with a view to permanent results. In short, he is free to be what his own talents and energy may make him. The result...
...cannot exist together, for the marks defeat the very object of the electives. If a foreign system of education be imported, the machinery that makes its working possible must be imported...
...clear with respect to amateur clubs like ours. But on careful investigation, and by means of a good deal of questioning, we find that our nine will not be excluded from playing on the grounds of the Bostons except with the six clubs that form the league. Our nine cannot play with those clubs at all, but we may use their grounds, as we always have done, to meet other nines. Arrangements have already been made to open the season with the Live Oaks at Lynn on Fast Day, and other games of interest will soon follow. In our Brevity...