Word: old
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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When all played so well, with so much vim and steadiness, it is perhaps unnecessary to speak of individual accomplishment. But yet too much praise cannot be given to the excellent playing of our pitcher and catcher, the backbone of the Nine. Tyng's batting was something immense; his old reliable black-walnut bat knocking Carter's "effectiveness" into thin air. Ernst pitched in a way that none of those Yale fellows could find out, and he, too, did good work at the bat. The bases were splendidly played, their guardians never failing to do their duty, however difficult. Latham...
...Lowell's. A few, unable to endure the fatigue of so long a tramp, seated themselves in horse-cars or cabs, and took their ease on their way to Elmwood. About twelve o'clock they reappeared in the Square, and marched around the Yard, cheering the buildings in the old-fashioned way. The undergraduates gave them nine cheers in front of University, and after a chorus in front of Holworthy the Class separated...
...getting out. What was to be done if after a man got into college he could not get out? He was afraid if the present tests were applied to the alumni, many would long remain within the classic shades. The emerald green of the College Yard, from the old President's house to the remotest corner of the delta, would soon be whitened with the bones of the alumni who died in ineffectual struggles to effect their escape from the college...
...door was opened by a remarkably pretty girl, who, as I learned afterwards, was Mr. Archibald's daughter. She showed me into a room where her father was. He was an old man with white hair. He asked about my father and family, and then about my studies...
...never saw any one so surprised. 'Why, Cousin Harry,' said she, and she opened her great eyes at me; 'you don't smoke, do you?' And then we went through the old argument again. I've had it with my sister thousands of times, but it had quite a novel feeling to have your belle cousine for an antagonist. I declare, she seemed so earnest about it, and so sorry that I had formed the habit, that I felt quite complimented, but I was rather uncomfortable...