Word: minding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...game on Wednesday are to be congratulated on the invention of such a Chinese puzzle. Many were disposed at first to regard the placing of two or three names in spaces by themselves as an "exalting of the few at the expense of the many," but later on their minds were relieved. Happy thought! Perhaps the man who had mind enough to originate that card may be able to explain the "curve system" of marking used in German VII. and the lowness of the marks in English...
...hearty applause with which good plays on either side were received, knows how entirely untrue any charge of bullying is. We do think that it is hardly necessary to clap a player who gets his first-base on an error; but it is perfectly evident to the unprejudiced mind that the applause is meant to show the gratification of the spectators at the successful run, not pleasure at the error of the opposing nine...
...have not watched closely the scores of our Nine and of Yale's - men whose opinion has little value - say openly that our chances of success are few. Others who have been carefully comparing each score as it reaches us are in a much more hopeful frame of mind. We sympathize entirely with the latter, and shall wait until the next game is lost before giving up the hope of winning the series, and the championship. The match with Amherst on Wednesday has strengthened our hopes. Ernst's pitching in the fourth and fifth innings was particularly fine. Howe...
Thence, the games being ended, the judges and other stewards went up back to the city in two-horse chariots, but most of the spectators proceeded on foot. And all were greatly delighted in mind at the games...
...report which is now circulating, that all petitions are to be sent to parents at the end of the year, originated in the mind of some conscience-smitten undergraduate, and has not the sanction of those in authority...