Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...braced up and played the rest of the game in better shape. Harvard scored no runs in the first two innings. In the third Highlands struck out. Hovey got his base on balls, and Hallowell knocked a beauty base hit over in right field and would have gotten second but for a fine stop and throw by Cook. Frothingham got a good base hit, bringing in two men, but was left at second. In the fourth Cook got his base on balls, and Upton sent him to second by a terrible fumble of his hit, by Steere. With...
...advocated by the leading educationalist of the day. Comenius was essentially a man far ahead of his times. He recognized, and this is what Harvard is trying to improve upon the public today, that a system of teaching must be a natural one; that the greatest good cannot be gotten out of a man's mind by forcing him to study what is naturally distasteful to him: and that this highest intellectual power of man is demanded, as the real purpose of education is the advancement of humanity and not personal aggrandizement...
Very little idea can be gotten, of the candidates as yet, very few of the old men being out. In the course of two or three weeks the work will be harder and about all of the old men will be at work...
...Freshman Glee Club has gotten well under way and promises encouraging results. Mr. Thayer who has been training the men, says the material is unusually good, and, while this should in no way give the Club too much confidence in itself, still, it ought to be an incentive to steady faithful work. It is in the power of '95 to do something creditable to itself and to see that no such support as that given to the freshman crew of last year can be laid to its charge...
...only feature of the Index of this year which is an innovation, is the presence of the three leaves containing the scores of last year's contests with Yale. They are very well gotten up, and are welcome additions, but the editors made a curious slip when they called the games of the University Track Athletic Cup Association, Mott Haven games...