Word: playing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...having the aforesaid sum handy, I offered to take dummy's hand and play for it," said my chum. I whistled incredulously...
...return match with the Yale Freshmen, postponed from Thursday because of the rain, was played last Saturday on the Boston base-ball grounds. On account, doubtless, of the weather, only about three hundred people witnessed the game. Besides the severe cold, the grounds could hardly have been in a worse condition, dry spots being rather the exception than the rule. The game, under the circumstances, naturally failed to be a remarkably brilliant one. The playing of the Yale men, however, had improved noticeably since the match at New Haven. Their determination to win, too, was very apparent, making the game...
...Except as regards those books easiest to find, it is a failure; and students or others must go without what they want, unless they apply to one of the two assistants who understand the subject catalogue. As an example: suppose one wished to find a translation of a French play, which appears in English under a new title and with the translator's name in place of the author's. The student does not know this new title or the name of the translator. It is almost certain that his search will be in vain. The subject catalogue should...
...which he was willing to postpone the final decision about the game. A letter was sent in reply, asking him to meet the Yale captain in New Haven on Tuesday. Accordingly Captain Cushing went to Yale, and tried to arrange a match. Yale urged as her excuse for not playing with a fifteen that she had only eleven men in college who knew the rules. As they were the champions this year, they thought they had the right of insisting on the game they preferred. They admitted that we had the same right last year, and they considered that...
YESTERDAY the following telegram was received from New Haven: "Rather than win the game by forfeit, we will meet you half-way and offer the same terms as to Princeton. We will play with thirteen, the other conditions remaining as before." The calm assurance with which the representative of the Y. U. F. B. C. assures us that we shall forfeit the game if we do not play with an eleven is certainly remarkable, when we bear in mind that it was Harvard, not Yale, that sent the challenge, and that fifteen was the number agreed upon...