Word: masters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...return game with the New Bedfords was played in Fall River on Tuesday, April 16, and resulted in Harvard's first defeat. Our Nine played a nearly perfect fielding game, but were unable to master Bradley's new delivery, his previous defeat teaching him that his old delivery was not the right kind to oppose to Harvard's batsmen. The game was well contested through eight innings; in the ninth two earned runs were made by the New Bedfords. The injury which Ernst received in the Live Oak game rendered him very lame, and had a natural effect...
...difficult for our Glee Club. If "W" had lately heard the Glee Club sing, he would have recognized the fact that their music is hardly open to the charge of being too difficult; many of the College songs he would like sung are certainly much harder to master. There is no reason why we should not hear a few college songs from the Glee Club, but there is every reason why the Club should not devote itself exclusively to that kind of music. The members of the Club are chosen from among those with good voices and with good musical...
...when the first batch of ladies came down, I mildly suggested that we should immediately begin the embarkation, - a long and serious task, I assured them. To which dear Mary would have yielded, but Mrs. Earl thought they would wait for the others; "and, I'm sure, Master Morris, you and I need all the heat we can get before our ride...
Terrible hint! Was I doomed to have that harridan beside me all the evening? And her "Master Morris" too; as if I were four years...
...Well, you need n't believe it, you know, but I tell you I not only paid my ticket that way, but I won ten dollars from the baggage master besides...