Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Colonel Higginson's subject was "People Whom I have Known." In a most delightful manner he gave his personal recollections of some of the most famous personages he had come in contact with during his career: Edward Everett, Daniel Webster, Charles Sumner, Rufus Choate and Wendell Phillips, the greatest orators of their time, and in the literary world, James Russell Lowell, with whom Colonel Higginson went to school, John Greenleaf Whittier, Margaret Fuller, and Longfellow, who was professor of French at Harvard when Col. Higginson was an undergraduate...
Graduate Club. People I Have Met. Colonel T. W. Higginson. Colonial Club House...
...varsity baseball practice yesterday consisted simply of batting. The rain had so softened the diamond that it was impossible to play on it and Colonel Winslow took advantage of the opportunity to instruct the players in his system of batting...
...Colonel Winslow believes that the bat should be grasped by the right hand as though the bat was to be swung by that hand alone. The left hand is merely to direct, while all the force of the blow should come from the right hand. The first principle of this system is that there shall be no swinging of the bat. The arms must be straightened at the same instant the step forward to meet the ball is taken. The ball ought to be met in front of the base and the bat should always be parallel to the ground...
...Colonel Winslow said that the players might find this method of batting somewhat awkward at first, but that after a few days practice they would become accustomed to it and then the good results would become evident...