Word: oak
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Live Oak, of Lynn...
...Live Oak, of Lynn...
...Live Oak Club of Lynn, one of the strongest clubs of those contesting for the amateur championship of the State, visited Cambridge on last Saturday afternoon, and I layed the return game with the University Nine. The result proved disastrous to the visiting club, though they played a much stronger fielding game than the previous one at Lynn. The play of our Nine was very satisfactory. The errors were very few, while several very good plays were made. The score was twelve to one in favor of the Harvards. The result of the first game was twenty...
...need not specify - all know whom I mean - that friendly young man whose visits are as regular as the flow and ebb of the sea; that congenial soul who, on finding our oak sported, evinces his superior knowledge of college customs by treating us to the soul-soothing sound of the devil's tattoo beaten upon our door in a manner truly vigorous, giving vent at the same time to expressions of mistrust as to our being out, and whose incredulous phiz we finally see peering at us through the ventilator. In what a pleasant frame of mind...
...myself, let me say that, although duns are sometimes a source of amusement, I intend henceforth to know them only in their relations to my friends, and that I shall only sport my oak on the night before my annual examination in Math...