Word: nine
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...University Nine will play a game on the Boston grounds with a picked Nine from the Boston and other clubs on next Saturday, at 2.30 P. M., if the weather permits...
...Yale men, with characteristic skill in such matters, are throwing all possible stumbling-blocks in the way of our Nine, and the timely letter of our Captain reveals a persistent desire on their part to delay or defeat the arrangements for the spring games...
...offer of the Nine to play Yale any time during the two months preceding Class Day is sufficiently liberal, and cannot be consistently refused...
This year, of all others, Yale should not expect us to play after Class Day, since five of our Nine are Seniors, and would therefore find it very inconvenient, and perhaps impossible, to play during the busy days attendant upon graduation...
...find a certain pleasure in gazing upon ourselves in miniature, and we all, sooner or later, seek to gratify our wish. To the ordinary mortal there is very little choice between the photographer's chair and the dentist's, and the truth of this fact is stamped upon nine out of ten photographs, the sitters for which were all horribly conscious that they were "being taken." The expression varies. Some have evidently tried to follow the artist's advice to "look pleasant," and they inevitably do themselves sad injustice. A savage expression or an unhappy one calls for some respect...