Word: means
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sharp fielding and weak batting. In the eighth inning Joseph retired on a fly to pitcher. Parks struck an easy grounder to Sawyer, who, after fumbling it, failed to throw it to first in time. Leonard batted to Sawyer, and was put out at first, Parks in the mean while reaching second. O'Rourke struck sharp to Thayer, who, after making a pretty stop, threw wild to Wright, letting in Parks and sending O'Rourke to third. Murnan, after purposely trying to balk the catcher, for which be should have been declared out, hit a slow bounder to short stop...
...other day because of his personal appearance), he would have denied it indignantly. Now the truth is, that our friend Augustus is a little inclined to "snobbishness," and a little too much afraid of public opinion; in fact, in a small way, he comes pretty near "meanly worshipping a mean thing," - the best definition of a snob ever given. Now I don't want Augustus to make an intimate friend of Smudge, and I am not at all certain that Smudge would want him to either, but he can't afford to make...
...painful spectacle to see a young, unknown, inexperienced undergraduate attempting to censure a litterateur of seventy-three, of matchless erudition and genius, who has assimilated the wisdom of centuries, and who has rightly won the title his countrymen have given him, - the Concord Sage. If by age we mean weakness in body, Mr. Emerson may be old, but in intellect not. Age only adds wisdom to his boundless store of learning. AEsop's fable of the aged Lion and the Ass is just as pertinent to-day as ever. The old Lion is not helpless quite yet. It would have...
...Dartmouth complains that "the College" declines to pay any part of the expenses of the crew. It is perhaps necessary to state that "the College" seems to mean the students, and not the governing body of the institution. Additional point is given to the complaint by the fact that the College recently voted to pay a considerable sum for the purpose at once, and that nevertheless money does not pour into the treasury with increased rapidity. The students of Dartmouth evidently imagine that the word of the ordinary college student is as good as gold...
...hardly need specify the class which I mean. It is of course composed of those who tacitly deny the great principle of the equality of mankind. There are men among us who, seeing that their fellow-students cannot afford new clothes, flaunt their gayly-colored garments in the faces of these very fellow-students. There are men who smile with self-glorifying complacency on their velvet chairs, who fill their rooms with rare works of art and literature, while they know that there are hundreds of others who cannot do likewise. There are men who, having been favored with early...