Word: nine
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...prepared to answer questions that he might put to them during the recitation on the ground they had already gone over, making it a point to ask a few questions during each hour, and letting students know that they were marked on their answers, I think that nine tenths of those that now take History would make greater improvement, and find it easier to do faithful work than at present...
THERE are still fourteen men training for the University Nine...
...following are the names of those training for the Freshman Nine: J. S. Howe (Captain), Barton, Folsom, Avery, Spaulding, L. M. Clark, Fisher, Whiting, Nesmith, Sprague, W. Coolidge, Sanger, Ridgely, H. Elliot...
...Freshman Nine, too, need to train themselves thoroughly before they meet Yale, for the Yale Freshmen are putting all their energy into base-ball, and will probably turn out a strong team in the spring. The Nine now are doing good work in the Gymnasium, and promise well. They are, however, much in need of a catcher, as the person who has been training for that position is ill, and probably will hardly be able to play with them...
...rooms will be properly heated and ventilated, after all that has been said on the subject, we may reasonably expect. There are other points, however, that may be overlooked by those who have not profited by bitter experience. The windows, for instance, in the University recitation-rooms are, in nine cases out of ten, so arranged as to throw the sunlight right into the faces of the class, and to envelop the instructor in a deep shadow, whence, like the Homeric gods, he can see without being seen. Unpleasant as it is to be unable to distinguish the instructor...