Word: downs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SCENE, recitation-room. Enter ABSENT-MINDED FRESHMAN with his hat on. He sits down.
I WAS a little disgusted when I came back from my Thanksgiving holiday, and found no fire in the grate and on the table an accumulated pile of circulars and bills, -a gilt-edged note from my tailor, which I took for an invitation; a postal card from a Sunday...
"Thereby hangs a tale. I'll tell you as soon as I can make myself presentable. Well," continued he in a moment or two, "you know I went to Boscos. That village has particular charms for me just at present, and perhaps you can guess why I lingered and lingered...
"Little by little the pile of wood on the tender was diminished, and finally one of the attendant gnomes, peering over it, caught sight of me. He disappeared for a minute, and then two heads peeped over the pile. The train was at once slowed down, and one of my...
THROUGH the kindness of the captain of the Nine we are enabled to print this week a complete list of games played by the Harvard nines from 1865 down to the present time. This list will be found valuable as the only complete record of our base-ball prowess, - a...