Word: day
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Brown University Freshmen played with the new Fall River Amateur Nine on Fast Day. The score was 8 to 3, in favor of the Freshmen...
...Nine defeated the Live Oaks on Fast Day by a score of 15 to 1. Two thousand spectators were present. Ernst pitched finely, and was well supported by Tyng. Latham excelled in the field, and gained a wonderful record his only error being an excusable one. Tyng, Ernst, and Wright led at the bat. Say played well for the Live Oaks...
...woke to see the dream-born day...
...unmanliness consists in using skill as well as strength. Because it is played by ladies, the uninitiated (and your correspondent is apparently among the number) suppose it to belong to the genus croquet. Whoever wishes to remove this impression has only to try a game on the next hot day, and see whether he does not get as much exercise as a strong, healthy man requires. Any form of outdoor exercise can be taken easily; rowing itself, if one rows slowly enough, is anything but hard work; but just as a severe pull on the river is violent exercise...
...Harvard College of to-day wants no narrower, or more exclusive motto than truth - truth which embraces all that is highest and purest in the precepts of all teachers, human or divine; all that is best in the creeds of all churches, whatever their name, but allows no lines of circumvallation to be drawn round its sacred citadel under the alleged authority of any record or of any organization. This is what I mean to express in these two squares of metrical lines, wrought in the painful prolixity of the sonnet, a form of verse which suggests a slow minuet...