Word: held
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MEETING of the Executive Committee of the H. U. F. B. C. was held yesterday afternoon, and it was voted that an attempt should be made to arrange for matches with other clubs. The great difference between our rules for playing and those recently adopted by Yale, Rutgers, Columbia, and Wesleyan is an obstacle which will have to be overcome, but satisfactory arrangements will, if possible, be made, and to this end communications are to be sent to the various clubs...
...glad to learn that the Yale-Harvard base-ball games are to be played as formerly, - one here, one in New Haven, and the third on neutral ground. Several men are working hard for the Nine, and there is reason to hope that the championship, so long held by Harvard, will be regained...
...MEETING of the '76 and '77 editors of this paper will be held at No. 9 Holworthy, on Monday...
...remembered the peculiar effect of a dose of warm water which a friend had once administered to me by way of a practical joke. My candle was burning, and a little tin drinking-cup, full of water, stood beside it. I snatched up the cup and held it over the flame. If I could warm the water soon enough I should be saved - if not - the laudanum - how cold it was - it was nearly bedtime - I was so sleepy. A drowsy confusion of thought filled my brain. My head nodded. The narcotic was winning the race. I was almost unconscious...
...think, at the same time, that it will be well to insure the success of the enterprise by making the members of the Faculty honorary members of the club. A certificate of membership - in short, a shingle - might be issued with an appropriate device; such as a scroll, held out by angels of the "Fallen Order," provided with horns, cloven feet, and all other usual accessories. If a skull and bones were placed at the top of this shingle, I have strong reason to hope that we should receive an assurance of kindred feeling from a certain society in that...