Word: playing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...always be at play...
...first college game resulted in an easy victory. Trinity's play was chiefly characterized by wretched fielding and weak batting, Wilcox alone playing with credit. Holden led at the bat, and was closely followed by Thayer, Tyng, and Latham. Latham played at second base in his usual exemplary style...
...Freshman Nine will play with the St. Mark's School Nine at Southboro', to-morrow, and with the Adams Academy Nine at Quincy, next Wednesday...
...interesting one, and will be especially attractive to Juniors; but a large number of the class of '80, who were in the advanced section during their Freshman year, are cut off from taking this elective, for the simple reason that they have already read the play. The suggestion has been made, and it is not a bad one, that some other play of Aristophanes, which none of the present Sophomore class have ever read, be substituted for the "Birds." It has always seemed to us a cause of regret that so little of Aristophanes was read in the Greek electives...
...blue blood, to be defeated by a crew of horny-fisted American carpenters, every one must see; still, as the English sporting motto is supposed to be "Let the best man win," it would seem that our transatlantic cousins might suppress their aristocratic pride in the interest of "fair play," of which we hear so much, but see so little...