Word: old
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...exciting work for them, as they did last year. But in this we were grievously disappointed. From the very first inning our men began their heavy batting, getting two two-basers at the start, - Princeton in the mean while piling up errors in rapid succession, - until our score reached old-time figures, while Princeton's, through her inability to hit Ernst, remained severely modern in its proportions. The game was rendered still more tedious and uninteresting by the tire-somely slow movements of Princeton's pitcher, who, without making it at all effective, busied himself with a purposeless churning...
...seems to me that it is about time that something should be said in defence of that much-maligned creature the proctor. The violent censure and scathing sarcasm that have been hurled upon his defenceless head for weeks past have entirely destroyed his nervous system. He has grown prematurely old. I dare say that a close observer could detect a few straggling gray hairs in his head. No more do we hear the sound of the "squeaking boots" ; his manly tread is silenced. 'T is pitiful to see him moping on the corners with his brothers, or sitting with...
THREE years ago last autumn a vote of the Faculty excluded Sophomores from competition for the Boylston Elocution Prizes. The gentleman who edited the Catalogue that year, and who ought to have recorded this fact, seems to have cut out the portion of the old Catalogue referring to these prizes, and to have pasted it into his manuscript. At any rate, no mention of the change was made, and as the example was followed in the succeeding Catalogues, we are still informed in the official Publication of the College that members of the three upper classes are allowed to compete...
...THERE," said he, "in that little box on the right of the glass. I think I remember putting some old studs there...
...good old days when, if I may trust tradition, a cask containing a quantity of good cheer from a neighboring distillery (Medford, so saith the legend) was set up in the middle of the Yard, where the weary and footsore might refresh body and soul, are gone. "Cultchar" did this, and probably to excessively great development of the aesthetic on one side and too little on the other, much of the present obfuscation is due. From some quarters, now that the deed is done, much unavailing regret is heard in Seventy-seven. But never yet, as far as I have...