Word: means
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sending Phillips to third. Tilden hit an extremely swift grounder to Oliver which was too hot for him to handle with ease, and Phillips came home, tying the score. Oliver picked up the ball and threw to first, but was too late to catch Tilden. LeMoyne, in the mean time, had reached third and started for home, but turned back and Stewart threw to Hopkins to catch him off his base. Hopkins, however, muffed the ball, and LeMoyne scored the winning run with only one man out and Tilden on second...
...prettiest play of the game. For Harvard, the first two men struck out. Baker made a base hit and took second on a passed ball. Phillips hit a grounder to Vanetten who threw to first base. Moffat, however, muffed the ball, giving him his base; Baker, in the mean time, went to third, but Moffat picked up the ball and threw it to Vanetten, who caught him playing...
...criticisms on our new buildings. It was quite possible for Mr. Richardson, the architect of Sever and Austin Halls, to have erected pretentious structures, complex with designs, overloaded with ornamentation and bewildering in turrets and corners; yet with a true artistic instinct he has accomplished a happy mean between a brick box of four sides and a palace. Mrs. Van Rensselaer says of the new Medical School building, that "the task was to build a great square box, wholly of brick, with no ornamentation and with the necessity for floods of light in the interior. Yet there is beauty...
...game, if played on the 24th, will be a financial success, as the park will be used by us alone and the receipts are sure to be large. The terms are, I think, fairly enough, one-half gate receipts, and one-half expenses at all games,-net receipts I mean. Please let me know if these points are satisfactory. They seem at least fair...
Physical training in its broad sense means correct habits. It means temperance. It means morality. College sports today, as represented by the sentiment of undergraduates, mean manliness and fair play. The qualities of judgment, decision, coolness in the midst of excitement, and self-reliance, are developed. The value of discipline is learned by those who become members of teams, and all learn to care for their health. People who live in college towns will testify that with the increase in athletic sports there has been a decrease in the number of student escapades which disturb the peace and injure...