Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...best pieces of the evening. The scene of the meeting between Box and Cox was acted with much spirit, and the burning desire to do one another bodily injury was vigorously portrayed in the duet which followed. The Serenade between the two was a decided hit, and the audience and the audience was completely overpowered by the fascinating manner in which Mr. Bowditch manipulated his opera(hat)ic accordion, and by the proficiency, together with the wonderful delicacy of touch, which Mr. Gray exhibited in playing on his novel guitar. The singing of Mr. Hooper throughout the evening was very...
...will be seen that the writer goes a step farther than the celebrated Spinoza; for, instead of assuming a proposition which involves the desired conclusion, he has hit upon the equally beautiful and simple method of stating at once, in ipsis verbis, the things to be proved. If this is the development of reason fished from the ultramarine depths of modern thought, we may save ourselves the trouble of classifying it; for it is an exceedingly nasty creature, and was known to our old-fogy ancestors under the name of gratuitous invective. However, such argument has the merit of being...
...kind services of Messrs. Tyng and Thatcher. The odds against the Harvard men were, naturally, enormous; and the game terminated in our defeat by a score of eight to seven. The second innings was marked by a fine double play by Ernst, and in the following innings a splendid hit by Thayer gave three runs. In the fifth, a double out was made by Ernst, who obstinately insisted on catching a fly regardless of the earnest advice of his friends to drop it. In the sixth innings the Brunonians made two runs by the repeated errors of Thatcher...
...killed me, when it hit...
...Denton, of the Scientific School, was chosen, and consented to act. Game was called at 2.35 with the Harvards at the bat. The first innings closed with a blank for both sides. In the second innings Kent got his first, Thayer went out, when Ernst got a heavy hit to left field which the fielder failed to get in front of, and before the ball could be returned home Kent and Ernst had both scored. The Harvards batted the Princeton pitcher much better than in the first game, and played an almost perfect fielding game. The Princetons were naturally nervous...