Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale papers comment favorably on the recent playing of our freshman nine...
...most delicious bit of a black stock - beg your pardon - we mean hose. Mr. Palmer's company, from the Union Square, is perhaps the best suited of any of the stock companies to the presentation of such plays as this, which is too well known to require any comment...
...yesterday morning are regarded by the college in general as very unsatisfactory. The bad decisions of the umpire were in some instances almost unpardonable, and were generally in Brown's favor, the Herald and Globe to the contrary notwithstanding. The reports of these papers received much severe and unfavorable comment yesterday, and the general impression is that they were very unjust to our nine, to say the least...
...requesting that a course in phonography be established in the college. Bogus names were affixed to the petition by some person who wished to be funny, and defaced as it was, as the Era says, the probabilities of its being granted are greatly lessened. We do not wish to comment upon the foolish action of affixing the bogus names, for that has already been handled severely enough in a very sensible editorial in the Era, but would observe that a course in phonography - an elective to be taken as regular college work by those who desired - would be very useful...
...Boston Herald says: The delivery of Jones, the Yale pitcher, is said to have been so unfair in the Metropolitan games as to provoke considerable comment, and it is said that, unless he makes some change in his delivery, the college teams will kick. In view of the futile efforts of the league to enforce legislation on this point, the action of the collegians will be watched with interest...