Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...growing importance of history and international law not only as subjects of study by the student body but as objects of reform by the college authorities. He emphasizes in particular the need for studying these two subjects in their comparative aspects. In making this allusion, Dr. Butler has probably hit upon as grave an error in our system of pedagogy as can ever be made the subject of controversy by our educational reformers. It is that of allowing personal or national or even religious bias to enter into the teaching of the story of the past; it is compelling...
...French army is learning baseball rapidly. They like for its speed and excitement, but they have found American terms very difficult. A poilu simply cannot wrap his tongue around such words as "catcher", "base hit", and "umpire...
...healed up for some time. I got some gas up my nose this last time which makes me wheeze, when I walk, like an old accordion and also raised a few blisters on my face, neck and chest--but fortunately did not get into my eyes very much or hit me hard enough to make much trouble, unless I over-exert...
When the battle is hottest and the wounded begin to filter back through the lines, some of them--hit by a shell or shot through an arm or shoulder--are able to stumble back alone toward the dressing stations between the lines...
...Freshmen started the scoring in the first inning when J. T. Baldwin was hit by a pitched ball, took second on H. P. King's sacrifice, and scored on T. J. Meehan's single. Princeton regained the lead in the third with two scores, added three more runs in the fifth and one in the sixth inning...