Word: home
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...remarked the other day that all the playing of Yale's champion nine last year could not equal Dr. McCosh's home run from the anniversary last fall...
Lyons, '85, of Yale has made the longest throw and also the longest hit in the Inter-collegiate record. The distance of the throw was 385 feet 2 inches that of the hit was 450 feet from the home plate to the spot at which the ball fell...
...some cases stand for five minutes talking before they remove them. Seated at the table, they begin to talk and laugh loudly on subjects distasteful to those unfortunates who happen to be within ear-shot. Again, as though they had been unused to good manners at home, they toss food to and fro across the table as if they were ignorant of the fact that the faculty furnish a "cage" in the gymnasium in which to practice hand-ball. In truth, a cage seems to be the only suitable place for the majority of them. Now and then...
...with which a lycee for girls was established a few years ago, with a staff of 76 teachers and 1476 pupils, Greeks send their girls there from all parts of the east. Education is very liberally endowed in Greece, and the sums which Greeks settled in foreign counties send home for this purpose are very large. - N. Y. Post...
...most of the club. The members would mostly he sleeping-members I am afraid; for the difficulty is to provide a motive to bring men regularly, often to the club, and what motive is there. Their friends they can see in their own rooms and there be more at home; - acquaintances they can meet in the playing fields, anywhere, - and what is the chance of meeting any given person among so many? Books, they are unsociable things, and besides there is the Library, Papers? The reading soon had to be given up. And how many professors could spare time...