Word: lasting
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...names in italics are of the men who rowed in the last regatta...
...five and three in the next two innings to nothing and one for us. White had changed positions with Perry, but, beside frightening the enemy from stealing second base, could not change the current of luck, which seemed setting in, in favor of Yale. At the beginning of the last inning we stood two runs ahead, and failed to score; Yale came to the bat in good spirits, while our men showed a nervousness which they rarely exhibit in the field. The first striker sent a fly in Cutler's vicinity, and he took it neatly. The second...
...most interesting contests of the season. As the score shows, each side had made two runs at the end of the seventh inning, and at that time a glorious victory for Harvard seemed at least possible to her excited partisans. But the batting of the Mutuals in the last two innings was too much for our amateurs, and we were obliged to content ourselves with having fought a good fight. The playing of our out-fielders was up to their highest standard, and the rest of the Nine did themselves credit. Tyler reassumed his old position on third base...
...year of work winds up, it is very natural to look back on what has been neglected, forgotten, or actually learnt. Many will regret that the last has been with them the least of the three, and feel that a mistake has been made in the eight months past, - that too much has been aimed at, and consequently too little accomplished. These will perhaps feel the force of a few words on what is becoming so common at Harvard, a fashion of trying to get a general idea of all the elective studies, rather than an accurate knowledge...
...sees this misapprehension in reading-men who rush through book after book - novels, sermons, poems, biographies, travels, plays, histories - only that they may feel, when they have finished, that they have read them and are therefore "well-read" men. How different from people in the last century, who perused their Clarissa Harlowe, Rape of the Lock, Pilgrim's Progress, and Shakespeare till they almost knew them by heart, and thoroughly understood and appreciated much that was in them! Would it not be better if we, in our day, could only bring ourselves to give up the one thousand...