Word: playfulness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Harvard Freshman Nine went to Spring-field on Saturday, July 12, and, on their arrival proceeded at once to their quarters, - the Lefebvre House. Having ascertained that Brown was to be their only opponent, it was agreed to play a series of games, to take the place, as well as possible, of the proposed tournament. The first game was to be played on Tuesday, the 15th; the second on Thursday, the 17th; and the third, if necessary, on Friday, the 18th of July...
Then comes the dinner! How charming! work has grown merriest play...
...sight, these sixty-six young men, the pick of eleven colleges, presented as they sat there, bending forward, all eyes on the starter, as motionless as statues. The brown skins and developed muscles showed a latent power which was hardly less imposing than when it was called into full play in the grand rush and machine-like movement of the actual race. What they must have felt we can hardly realize. For months all their thoughts, actions, and even being had been directed to this one moment; a slight mistake now and the results of those months are thrown away...
OWING to the University match, which was arranged for the afternoon, the game was begun at 11.45 A. M. Our Freshmen did not play as good a game as they have in previous matches, but had no difficulty in vanquishing their opponents. The good fielding of Perry and Ernst, and the batting of Tyng, Sleeper, and Kip, the latter making a home run, were noticeable features of the game. On the part of the Browns, the principal good plays were made by Matheson, Comstock, and Allen. The thanks of both Nines are due to Mr. Stratton for his strict...
...severely sarcastic regarding our poetry. It is mortifying enough to meet with criticism at all from a paper whose columns are the receptacle of such wretched doggerel as the Courant affords. But in addition to this, to be wilfully misquoted is a little too much for good nature. Fair play, Courant, if you please...