Word: nine
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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CANDIDATES for position on the Nine are requested to come to the Cambridge Common every day at half past...
...University Nine played a game of base-ball on Wednesday, October 4, with a Boston club called Our Boys, and were defeated. The score is as follows...
...meeting of the Freshman class, Wednesday afternoon, H. S. Bond, Jr., was chosen president, and C. H. Hobbs secretary of the class. E. D. Jordan was elected captain of the Foot-Ball eleven; F. M. Holden, captain of the Ball Nine; S. Shillito, captain of the crew. There are about 225 men in the class, and a good nine and crew are expected...
...will find that about nine tenths of the fellows that you meet have limited their ambition for the last few years by the entrance examinations. When those are once passed, they see no reason for further exertion; and they are so anxious to acquaint themselves with the new phase of existence which they erroneously term life, that they find no time for anything else. Their college work is sure to be neglected. Their half-stupid, half-mischievous, wholly careless behavior in the recitation-rooms is sure to exasperate their tutors to the point of numerous warnings...
...changed. The leisure time that hung so heavily upon our hands is leisure time no more. Long lists of profound and valuable works have been given us, and reading sufficient to occupy the time of an industrious man for ten years at least has been furnished for the next nine months. Those who have taken courses in history or philosophy find that each instructor firmly believes that since one has taken his course he intends to neglect everything else and sacrifice his health in reading up for that particular elective. So it seems. We strongly suspect, however, that...