Word: manly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...what should have been a single base-hit, the ball bounding sideways and thus passing Fessenden. Howe played pluckily behind the bat, and caught Ernst's pitching remarkably well for a first attempt. Thayer, Wright, Alger, Latham, and Holden played well in the field. Carter was the only man on the Yale Nine who failed to get in a base-hit; the excellence of his pitching, however, fully atoned for his poor success at the bat. Hutchison made a good stop and caught a hot liner. Clark caught a difficult fly. Parker and Downer played their positions without error...
Gold Medals will be given for first, and silver for second and third prizes. Third prizes will be given only in games Nos. 3, 9, and 11. An entrance-fee (not returnable) of ONE DOLLAR per man, for each and every game, must accompany all entries. The right to reject any entry is reserved. No one will be allowed to compete unless properly attired. Competitors will please send their colors with their entry. An AMATEUR is any person who has never competed in an open competition, or for a stake, or for public money, or for admission money, or with...
...plan is strictly followed, will be brought below the necessary 50%. The general principle on which this action is based is not a good one. If instructors are to have this power of changing marks once given, no one will ever know where he stands, and a man may be notified, a year after he has finished a course, that the instructor has concluded, on reflection, to condition...
Bicycle Race. - It is to be hoped that this race will fill well, and that all those who start will finish. A race is never won until you've passed the post, and even if beaten it looks much better to see a man ride his race out pluckily, and not give it up because he is not ahead...
...expurgated editions here, and read the lesson entire, outside the class; for, in the words of Macaulay, "a man who, exposed to all the influences of such a state of society as that in which we live, is yet afraid of exposing himself to the influence of a few Greek and Latin verses, acts like the felon who begged to have an umbrella held over his head from Newgate to the gallows, because it was a drizzly morning, and he was apt to take cold." I don't suppose that any instructor is so absurd as to think that...