Word: far
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...result of the hard work of the Nine in the Gymnasium during the winter, and their regular practice in the field since the weather has permitted it, is seen in the large number of base-hits made in all the games played so far, and in the small number of fielding errors. The outlook in base-ball is most encouraging, and it seems probable that the Nine will even improve on their splendid record of last year...
...most interesting and exciting games ever played upon those grounds. By a glorious hit in the ninth inning, victory was snatched from the very jaws of defeat only to be quickly thrown back by three or four unfortunate errors. But notwithstanding their good success so far, the Nine has yet plenty of work to do. They will have worthy opponents in some of the college nines, and must struggle hard if they would not mar the fine record of last year...
...cannot establish this assertion by positive data, but my purpose in writing this is to bring out a vote on this two-sided question. I can readily understand that there are men - not "bummers" or "society men," but good students - whose habits of study lead them to carry it far into the night, and who therefore consider the extra morning hour very valuable for sleep. But I think these men are exceptional, and that the great majority of men would find this morning hour much more valuable for study. The morning is the time when the brain is naturally freshest...
...change having been made in the hour of commencing recitations, we have entered upon a trial of a system which we think the majority of the students wished to have put in practice. The boating and ball men would like, doubtless, the extra hour in the afternoon, but by far the greater number of students prefer not to gain an hour in the morning, if at the same time an hour in the evening has to be sacrificed...
...builds fires for his living. The specimen with which I have daily intercourse would furnish a careful student of human nature with a fund of amusement and instruction that would be inexhaustible. I ask you, my reader, to picture to yourself a man whose sole care in life, as far as it appears, is the burden of lighting sundry fires and cleaning various boots. It would seem as if this responsibility was not enough to make him absent-minded, yet one would suppose that a tolerably well-brought-up mule would know that a day in January with the wind...