Word: hot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inning. With two men out, G. P. Merrill tried to steal second but was thrown out prettily by Crocker and caught about two feet off the base. Quinn, however, decided not out, and Merrill made the winning run. The features of the game were the batting of Baker, the hot line catches of Baker and Beaman, the left-field play of Le Moyne and H. B. Hall and the third base play of Welch. Lovering's play at right-field was magnificent, as the score shows. His assist out at first of F. S Hall in the second inning...
...England the student is thrown more upon his own resources. "His 'house' gives him a breakfast of tea and bread and butter; he markets for himself for what else he wants - eggs, marmalade, jam, potted meats. In school, as out of it, the American breakfast of fish, beefsteak, hot cakes, or what not, is unknown. The boys breakfast in small rooms, twenty or twenty-five together, each eating such breakfast as his means, his tastes, his skill in marketing, or the liberality of a wealthier friend may afford him. The school is divided into classes or 'forms.' The sixth-form...
...their days; one class taught how to search for the beautiful, the other taught beauty itself. The young men arrived in the morning early and soon were engaged in the forenoon bath, which is, perhaps, too much neglected by our trainers. This occupied over an hour, for they took hot and cold baths, then a swim, and finally the more fastidious youths appointed themselves for the day. After this the morning was spent in study, and the afternoon, until the evening bath, was passed in athletic exercises. We find the character of the exercises much the same as at present...
...average for schools is one and one-quarter per week, and for college buildings 1.67 per month. As to precautions against fire, iron doors are considered very safe, but are in reality very dangerous, as a hot fire will cause them to curl within five minutes, leaving an open space at the top and bottom for the fire to enter. The best doors are made of strong planks covered with tin, and will withstand a fire for hours...
Prof. Cooke's lecture in Freshman Chemistry yesterday included some interesting experiments in freezing mercury, and also in solidifying water in a red-hot crucible...