Word: laying
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...third game of baseball in case the first two should result in a tie. This practically puts an end to all correspondence, and we are in a fair way to have last year's experiences repeated a season with the championship undecided. It is useless for Yale to lay the blame of this upon Harvard. By her own persistent, uncompromising spirit she has refused not only to consider Harvard's first proposition to play the tie game after the other two, but she has curtly declined to leave the matter to an impartial judge...
...decline this proposition. If she accepts we can readily forgive her unwillingness before to meet us fairly and squarely. If she declines, she will condemn herself in the eyes of every just and reasonable person, and expose herself to a suspicion which we cannot, at least would not, lay to the charge of our "dearest enemy...
...published "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," a collection of ballads and traditions from which he drew much of the material for his later works. His first great poem, "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," was published in 1805. This was very successful and at once raised Scott to prominence. For the next two years he was at work in writing a life of Dryden and in publishing an edition of his works. In 1808 appeared "Marmion." In this Scott is at his best, he has a truly romantic subject, and his wonderful faculty of invention is at its height...
...work and not to dawdle." Professor Moore contributes "The Study of the Fine Arts in Universities and Colleges." It is a very interesting article explaining that to undergraduates the Fine Arts should be taught only to "awaken a sentiment of beauty in the minds of educated men, and to lay the foundations for a discriminating judgment with regard to works of art." Anything beyond this is rather the work of a professional school. Colnnel Higginson's "Address of Welcome to the Harvard and Yale Football Teams" is printed in full. "Headmasters on Secondary Education" consists of a number of short...
...choir sang the anthems: "Oh, the golden, glowing morning," by r. H. Warren: "I am He that liveth," by Oliver King; and "Come see the place where Jesus lay," by H. W. Parker...