Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fall baseball practice has now been going on for about two weeks, and in the favorable weather which has prevailed, a great deal of good work has been accomplished with the new material. Owing to the large number of men who have come out, the squad has been divided into four nines, with substitutes. Two nines play regular games against each other on alternate days, substituting players until each man has been given a chance. In this way the men get the best kind of training, that of experience in actual play on the field...
...first base, the other men seeming to lack experience in that position. For second base, Keene and Putnam are about equally matched, and each is doing excellent work, although Putnam is weaker at the bat. At shortstop, Wright, Coolidge and Gilles are fairly accurate and cover a good deal of ground. Lancey and Rowley are doing well at third, but neither of them is a steady hitter...
Behind the line there was a great deal of confusion, as many of the backs were kept out by slight injuries. There was also a good deal of fumbling, in which respect Ellis and Warren were the worst offenders. Sawin played at quarter, and ran the team well...
...followed, told of the starting of the Graduate School in 1872, at a time when the regular requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in all American colleges were three years residence and a fee of five dollars. There existed among the colleges at that time a great deal of hard feeling which amounted to a kind of "armed neutrality." To the growth of the graduate schools, and to the intermingling there of men from different colleges, he ascribed the gradual dying out of that former unfriendly criticism. The old feeling has been supplanted by a rivalry that...
...welcomes even such a hackneyed theme as "The Cox'n," and a tale so slight as "Old Kearney," for their contrasting nearness to the College. "The Conversion of Cavendish" does not deal with religion, but is an overdone burlesque on golf containing a swear word and nothing else to speak...