Word: getting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often hears criticisms on the English department of Harvard because there is no single course in which a student can get a comprehensive knowledge of English literature. It is perfectly true that no such course exists, for the simple reason that it would be of no value. The courses are to teach the students the literature, the real works of the authors, which certainly cannot be done in one year, but may be fairly well done in four years...
...trust to numbers, we can get some interesting results. In 1883, out of the 972 students of the college, 192 took English courses other than those required by the faculty. It does not follow that 192 different students studied English, for some may have taken more than one course, but that the number of men in all the courses in English amounted to 192. Bearing this inaccuracy in mind, we may now see to what results we are led. In 1883-4, 20 per cent. of the students studied optional English; in 1885-6, 453 out of the 1006 students...
...game was lost for Exeter by the inability of their pitcher to get any control over the ball. Although in the Beacon game, Dillon, the pitcher. proved himself a good player, keeping the Beacons down to four hits, he seemed utterly unable to do anything in the Andover game. He gave seventeen men bases on balls, several times when the bases were full, and let in many more runs by his wild pitches. Exeter played a good game at first, until the nine became thoroughly discouraged at the poor playing of their pitcher and lost all life. Andover evidently went...
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...longer holds her own in the College League, having finally, and irrevocably, severed her connection with it by resigning. There seemed to the management no other course to pursue under the circumstances, considering the generally demoralized condition of the men on the nine and the impracticability of attempting to get together a nine from the men still remaining about college. Of the men that comprise the nine only three are now in playing condition...