Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...make no pretence to being pitchers. There are several good pitchers in college who would be willing to play. As the HERALD suggested several days ago, the celebrated "pony" team (Knowles and Stevens) are still in college and would no doubt be willing to play, if they were asked. Let the college get a good nine to support this batting, and then the freshmen can practice with a team more nearly their equals. What they need is practice with a team that will make them work...
...freshmen must win this year. The college cannot afford any more losses to Yale. Let '85 play with the idea that on their success depends the future existence of freshman nines...
...world of vandals; it cannot understand our Latin nor our Greek, and it thinks our English not worth reading; it scorns our literature, and, if it have any regard for our science, it is because it teaches to steer ships and to print newspapers." A miserable world truly; and let us rail on Lady Fortune in good terms, in good set terms, my poor Jaques. An important statement given here reads: "This is the first paper that ever was attempted by the students of Harvard." And then added in bitterness of spirit I find: "If it is not the last...
...Let us, then, by another year, have an opportunity to welcome - say, a Wellesley Phoenix, which shall have arisen during the summer vacation from the flames of burning emulation, and which shall not partake too much of the frivolity of the Leaves nor yet of the prosiness of the Miscellany, but shall be a typical young woman's journal, full of good sense and brightness, interesting prose and characteristic poetry...
...caustic satire seemed at first plausible, but, on re-reading several editorials, nothing was found that would for a moment lead one to suspect him of having received a liberal college education. If dyspepsia is the cause of his sourness, which we are inclined to think is the case, let him carefully read the advertisements in the paper he represents, and among them he will surely find some remedy...