Word: lost
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...made a beautiful hit out to right field, and sent the ball far beyond the ropes. He brought two men home and reached third himself. At this point the Yale Captain interposed. He objected to Fessenden getting three bases on a ball that went outside the ropes and was lost. Our Captain said that as no agreement had been made about that part of the field, his man was entitled to as many bases as he could get. The Yale men refused to play the game out, and after a quarter of an hour's parley our Captain agreed...
...such an example, simply offer our congratulations to the Beacon for its peculiarly elevated style and tone. May we suggest, however, that it is not universally acknowledged that the line "Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow," is by Shakespeare. Some persons contend that it is the first line of a lost work, "The Traveller," by an obscure poet named Goldsmith. We are in perfect sympathy with the Beacon, and only doubt whether it praises sufficiently the institution which it represents. It is absurd for the Argus to speak of local pride and petty conceit. When a great and famous University, situated within...
...Eighty-two of the Sophomores have chosen Conics, and fifty-eight Analytics. The class has lost twenty-one men since last September...
...every one thought that we had the game in our own hands. George Wright, however, got his base on called balls, and Leonard and J. White followed with safe hits. Three runs were scored, leaving the game four to two in favor of the Bostons. This game was lost, as was the preceding, by hard luck in not getting our base-hits in at the right time. There were several times during the game when a good base-hit would have won it. The score was as follows...
...regardless of expense. A certain class of young men must be sent to college because that is the high-toned thing, and famous and costly institutions will be the victims, and that in spite of high standards. At the same time some of the best material will be lost on account of lack of means, - Oberlin Review...