Word: getting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...themselves of the use of reference-books in the evening. If the hour were changed from five to four, probably the convenience of the largest number would be met; for where two persons wish to refer to the same book at the same time, the first who comes will get it, whether the hour be five or four, and where there is only one applicant, it makes no difference at what hour the book is taken out. The satisfactory management of the Library has rendered criticism of late unnecessary, and, in calling attention to a change which should...
...Inning. Again Yale fails to reach first base; Ernst and Tyng have got into their old-time, clock-like precision. But Harvard does not succeed in hitting Lamb, and although Holden manages to get to first by an error, he is left there. The score is still 4 to 0 for Yale...
...Inning. Yale has one run to get to tie, and two to beat. Clark is first victim, sending a fly to Coolidge. Walden is unable to hit the ball, and strikes out. Hopkins closes Yale's chances by hitting up in the air to Nunn...
Many promising young creatures in '82 thought it their duty to come as near as possible to getting dropped; they succeeded as well as do the equally juvenile youngsters who try to come as near getting drowned as they can by walking on thin ice, and some twenty have got a ducking already, and have been put to soak till next year. They will bring a delicious lotus-eating element into your class, dear Freshmen. Such men never "brace." They find walking on thin ice so exciting, that they keep on trying it, and are drowned forever...
...have much, of course - to care whether your crew is supported, and whether your class gives say two-thirds of her quota towards its 'Varsity. I 'm quite aware that '82, as you state, failed to support both her crew and the 'Varsity; still, that class did not get a very good reputation by such conduct. Then, too, it is very fine to say, "Confound all class matters, what do I care for my class?" like the '80 men, and though, like '80, liberal with your money, to refuse to give yourself to class objects. But crews and theatricals...