Word: finds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...praise cannot be given to the excellent playing of our pitcher and catcher, the backbone of the Nine. Tyng's batting was something immense; his old reliable black-walnut bat knocking Carter's "effectiveness" into thin air. Ernst pitched in a way that none of those Yale fellows could find out, and he, too, did good work at the bat. The bases were splendidly played, their guardians never failing to do their duty, however difficult. Latham and Dow accomplished good things in their positions; Leeds did his little well; and Tower so impressed the enemy with his skilful appearance that...
...such Yale men as from time to time made their appearance, and waiting until it should be time to go to the match. Those who found friends among the Yale men showed them the sights of Harvard, and those who had never seen Yale men before were surprised to find them so much like other people. Of betting there was very little. By two o'clock the seats around the ball-field began to fill, and the crowd, consisting largely of ladies, was amused by the band until the game began. What happened then will be found elsewhere; sufficient...
...Amherst Student has a very patriotic and rather sentimental article on the "American Westminster," which we find, at the end of the fourth column, to mean the hearts of our countrymen; a sepulchre to which the author of the piece consigns not only the Father of his Country, - for whom it was originally invented, - but also all our other heroes. However, patriotism in a collegian is so rare a virtue that we will not criticise the form in which it comes...
...wish to find grace in our Danae's eyes...
WERE it commonly known that sitting on college fences is what is technically called a "Yale trick," there is no doubt the recently developed fence-roosting mania would cease to find favor in the sight of all respectable undergraduates...