Word: play
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...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...
...Harvards met the Bostons yesterday afternoon on Jarvis Field, and played them a very pretty game. The opening inning promised a small score and excellent play, but the score grew, and the play at times was not free from fault...
...information, on the other, his notes, original and copied; he can be credited for both; he who has but a poor memory may fairly compete with him who has much; that abominable habit of cramming may to some degree be done away with, and the student have some little play for originality; lastly, though not least, the system of cribbing would be permanently checked. It would be the for student's interest to collect all the reference he could; his honor would no longer be endangered, and he might leave college with a purer conscience and a better sense...
...Maggie was so natural, so straightforward, that every one was pleased to have her turn out the Cinderella of the girls. Simon's music suggested to the college ear the opening strains of D. Pratt's poem "Sound the hugag!" etc. All the parts were well taken, and the play went off with a creditable freedom from hitches...
THERE seem to be some indications of diminished enthusiasm in Base-Ball, evinced by the lack of public attention to amateur playing, and the complaint we meet in our exchanges of the flagging interest in their colleges. The very perfection of base-ball has lost it many of its formerly devoted patrons. Years ago it was pleasant to play base-ball, when every one was sure of his two or three runs, and his three hours of fun; but the introduction of professional nines has reduced the game to a science, and made hard work out of exercise...