Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Winslow, who, although playing his first game for the season, displayed wonderful skill and coolness. In the second inning, while the ball was still slippery and hard to handle, after pitching Carpenter five poor balls, he sent in six balls in succession true over the plate, compelling Carpenter to knock fouls on three of them, and striking out on the other three...
...acknowledged the compliment, and was making his way into the hall when several students were heard to say "Let's give him a squeeze." The scene that ensued is described as being simply disgraceful. The professor was hustled, squeezed against the railings, pelted with peas, and attempts made to knock off his hat with sticks, and his coat was torn. Ultimately he got relief by Professor Wilson causing the door to be opened. For about ten minutes before the hour at which the proceedings were to commence the commotion in the hall was very great. Large numbers of students mounted...
...brings up some interesting considerations upon the future of the movement represented by that institution towards the introduction of co-education at Harvard. The annex, we are told, looks forward with hope and confidence to the time when, backed by a rich endowment and a powerful clientage, it may knock at the doors of this ancient university and demand admission as a constituent part of its organization. The prospects of any such an event of course are so far removed into the future as to prevent any apprehension whether pleasant or otherwise of its realization. Indeed the majority, we believe...
...other side and allowed the striker to gain home. The News aptly remarks, "it may be well enough to use such small grounds for practice, but when a championship game must be played in so small a place that three long hits into the field knock shingles out of the roof of a barn, and only count for one, or at the most, two bases, it is exasperating." Brown owes it to herself, as well as to other colleges, to procure more suitable grounds...
...never once heard of one's being broken." The N. Y. Herald reports that quiet now reigns in Princeton: "No longer does the principal thoroughfare resemble a street scene in a Christmas pantomime. The undertakers' signs cease to grace the fronts of chemists' shops. That hazing has had a knock-down at Princeton there can be no doubt...