Word: notches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pitcher has been disabled all the time. However, we won't offer any apologies. We were fairly out-played. We did the best we could, but it was not good enough; Harvard did better. It is hard for men who have seen Yale's flag flying from the topmost notch ever since they have been in college, to realize that they must see it dust and mud stained for the year to come. Let it not be said of us that we who have known prosperity so long and intimately, do not know how to bear defeat, as Harvard surely...
...what we want more that anything else is a change, and this can easily be afforded us without any undue expenditure. It is really remarkable the way in which Memorial seems to be bound to a certain bill of fare that inevitably swings around into the same old notch with each recurring week. The steward and his cooks do not seem to realize the unlimited capacities of their situations or to be aware that innumerable cook books can offer them scores of dishes that are equally inexpensive with the present bill of fare, and are, besides, far more palatable...