Word: greats
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...score; Yale came to the bat in good spirits, while our men showed a nervousness which they rarely exhibit in the field. The first striker sent a fly in Cutler's vicinity, and he took it neatly. The second at the bat succeeded in making his run, amid great excitement of the spectators, and through very bad play by our men. Hooper was pitching in a rather demoralized manner; and as the next striker for Yale took his position, he received whispered instructions from his captain, these, of course, being to wait for called balls. Out of five balls pitched...
...most thoroughly developed Englishman; manly to the last degree, taking a vigorous interest in every reform, bringing up his children with reverence for Church and State, and for their own minds and bodies, and preserving among the poorer inhabitants of his vicinity that almost unattainable mean between too great and too little familiarity...
...Cheever Goodwin's burlesque, "Evangeline," to be produced in a few weeks. It is a bold, spirited composition, and extremely effective as arranged either for the piano-forte or a full orchestra. It has been played at some of the theatres for the past fortnight with great success. The air of the trio is very sweet and pleasing, and the combinations in harmony throughout, many of them novel and ingenious, give the piece a very different character from the tum-ti-tum marches which are everywhere published with such lavish profusion...
...abstract reasons. They say that the College is endowed by the State, that women pay taxes, and that therefore it is legally wrong to refuse them the advantages of education that have been procured by their money; that girls in the public and private schools often display a great capacity for study, and often lead the boys, this fact proving that they are not mentally or physically disqualified for brain work. Mr. Phillips further called attention to the absurdity of demanding from women great talent, or genius even, before they are allowed the privilege of the higher education...
...thoroughly understood and appreciated much that was in them! Would it not be better if we, in our day, could only bring ourselves to give up the one thousand and one others, and try to get some idea of the real spirit of Carlyle, Thackeray, Tennyson, or some great writer, till we felt ourselves equal to the study of the greatest, - Shakespeare...