Word: lated
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have said so distinctly. Our advice to them now is, to row under the best conditions they can get, but at any rate to row. Let them persuade their rivals, if they can, to go to New London; if not, let them yield to superior obstinacy. It is too late to go back now without incurring all sorts of unpleasant suspicions. We repeat what we said when the challenge was first sent, the Freshmen have simply to go in and do their best. In future they, or rather their successors, will do well to look more carefully before they leap...
...relative to playing matches on Jarvis with other than college nines; with regard to which an answer had not then been returned. We have since learned that the petition was not granted for several reasons. Our base-ball prospects then looked gloomy enough, but matters have improved somewhat of late. The language of the guide-book of the League Association is not altogether clear with respect to amateur clubs like ours. But on careful investigation, and by means of a good deal of questioning, we find that our nine will not be excluded from playing on the grounds...
...strictly on the defensive. After eight minutes spent with no result, the contestants were allowed to take the over-the-shoulder and round-the-waist grip, for the two remaining minutes. After some severe struggles, this resulted in a draw. The final bout was then deferred, because of the late hour, to the following Saturday...
...next few years seem to have quickly passed with Jeremiah, and to have increased his desire for literary fame. Every scrap of paper that fell in his way, - even the backs of his late father's receipted bills and the margins of the Hampton Gazette - he appropriated with a miserly eagerness that reminds one of Pope. Few men are content to write much without a thought of publication, and soon the fatal itching to get into print seized Jeremiah. Whittier, when a farm-boy, sent a poem on a scrap of paper to an editor, and immediately his genius...
...first, I am sorry to say, he thought of writing a Sunday-school book. A great many people have crept into literature in this way, but it never was a respectable road, and of late years, since they have begun to write such books by machinery, there is no opening here by young writers. Fortunately about this time Smith began to read the New York Ledger, and soon determined to write instead a sensational novel of the highest order, which should reveal all the wickedness of a great city. To be sure, he had never been in a city...