Word: playing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...University Nine will play a game on the Boston grounds with a picked Nine from the Boston and other clubs on next Saturday, at 2.30 P. M., if the weather permits...
...keeping up a constant buzzing with their tongues, like flies in fly-time. Their answers to all questions are, invariably, "You must use your own judgment about it," or, "What! you don't mean to say you don't know that? well, I am surprised!" And so they play their part...
...inst., a party of about forty Freshmen visited the Boston Museum to see Evangeline. The witticisms of that extravaganza are only too familiar to the minds of theatre-goers, and they naturally succeeded in eliciting only groans from the ranks of '80. While going down stairs after the play, the Freshmen sang, but this could not have interfered with any one's enjoyment of the music or of the acting. In short, their behavior, although remarkably juvenile, was entirely harmless...
...offer of the Nine to play Yale any time during the two months preceding Class Day is sufficiently liberal, and cannot be consistently refused...
This year, of all others, Yale should not expect us to play after Class Day, since five of our Nine are Seniors, and would therefore find it very inconvenient, and perhaps impossible, to play during the busy days attendant upon graduation...