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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Pool, Root and Dickerman played more or less last fall in practise games. Dickerman is a fair fielder, but is not at home in any other place, while Poole and Root can fill any one of the positions outside the battery equally well. A great deal has been said about Dalzell, '91, and he has been cracked up as a wonderful pitcher. Yale's laurels would not, however, be very safe in his hands. He is a fair pitcher, but not at all the phenomenal player he has been described. It is possible that he and Day will constitute...
...Howling at "errors" is extremely ungenerous and unsportsman-like. and is never seen in English universities. The chief object of college education is to implant in tellectual ambition and a high purpose, and this can be done only by a common sympathy for noble ends. Freshmen bring their home standards with them, and there is a decided difference between the present standards and those of the time when Harvard was a local institution After a man has been here some time he is influenced by oral traditions, and, among other things, boys of 18 or 19 play the same pranks...
...John C. Ropes will entertain the Historical Society this evening at his home in Boston, and will speak on "Slavery before...
...school has been in existence for five years. Its success has equalled the most sanguine expectations of its founders. It has furnished guidance and instruction to twenty-one students. It has had the sympathetic support of twenty colleges. It has won confidence at home and recognition abroad. It has a suitable house, with accommodations both for the director and for students. It has at its command the services of a distinguished scholar. Under these circumstances its friends make their appeal for its permanent endowment with hope and confidence...
...instructors, large women and formidable withal, The men stood around a while waiting for further developments, in the meantime casting furtive glances at the bashful maids across the hall. After a while, when it became apparent that nothing further was expected of the men, except that they should go home, they cheerfully departed, congratulating each other on the delightful evening they all had spent. On the way home they gave vent to their pent up enthusiasm in a serenade to the young ladies of Lasselle...