Word: kills
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...agreeing with the general tone of the paper, as intended to elevate athletics, they did not approve of several particulars, especially restrictions in regard to playing professional nines. They agreed with the resolve to do away with professional trainers. It is thought at Brown that the resolutions would practically kill baseball, which is the only sport which is much practised there. The reason assigned is that Brown compels its students to attend recitations regularly and thus practice can only be obtained from local professional and amateur nines. Otherwise than with regard to baseball the regulations do not particularly affect Brown...
Resolution 3 seems to me to have been designed to kill athletic sports in the smaller colleges. At least it will be effectual to that end. The preamble and the resolution are consequently, in my opinion, at sword's points...
...knock into "kingdom come." It is shame to tease them by sending in curved spheres. In future, pitchers will deliver them straight at the bat so that nothing may baffle the aim of the batsman, who can thus convert his ash into a catapult, by whose means he may kill the pitcher, or anybody else on the field at will, to prove how much of an athlete he has become since he joined college. [Clipper...
...proportion to its speed, the bounce will be very much higher. The true reason why the high volley is objectionable is that it rarely passes the net low enough; or, when it does it necessarily makes a high bounce near the net, thus giving the opponent a chance to kill the ball...
...some other recreation and exercise, and I feel sure that many men would be glad of the chance which the formation of a Gun Club will offer. It would, too, in addition to present advantages, enable the students of Harvard to get larger bags of birds, and to kill more moose, deer, bear, etc., during the summer months...