Word: offsetting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Camp followed with base-hits, the remaining strikers going out; two earned runs went down to Yale's credit in this inning. The sixth inning opened with Yale, 6; Harvard, o. A two-baser by Howe and a passed ball gave Harvard her maiden run, which was immediately offset by base-hits by Hutchison and Parker, aided by a wild pitch. A two-base hit by Winsor, and errors by Hopkins, gave Harvard one more run in the seventh. Nunn, Howe, and Winsor made base-hits in the eighth, and, aided by errors of Hopkins and Camp, three runs were...
...Junior and Senior years examinations become but a pleasant offset to recitations. If our residence here were prolonged to twice the present time, we should be extremely disgusted if an accident should prevent an examination, and would warn all our friends from taking the elective of a man who cared so little for keeping his promises...
...with the Advocate in regretting the action of the Faculty in requiring Seniors to get fifty per cent in every examination, and it has occurred to me that it is a subject worthy of notice in the Crimson also. I understand that this requisition is put upon Seniors to offset the privilege of voluntary attendance at recitations. The Faculty recognize the liability of a student's loafing through the first half of the year, failing on the Semi, and making it up at the Annual. This mode of procedure they intend to prevent by making fifty per cent the requisite...
...John Randolph's oratorical power offset by John Randolph's bodily weakness and debility...
...great wealth of Stephen Girard found its offset in his low and pitiable existence...