Word: plays
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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OWING to the new rule which provides that professional base-ball clubs, members of the League, shall not play with amateur clubs on League grounds, one very important source of revenue is taken from our Nine. Hence the Nine are compelled to ask this year for a larger subscription than usual in order to meet the expenses of Gymnasium practice, and of cleaning and repairing uniforms. We hope that the students will bear these facts in mind and be willing to subscribe liberally to the funds of the Nine...
Then I walked slowly back to College, wondering which was right, and thinking of the dear ones at home, and of the happy Christmas we 'd had, and of the happy days to come. "After all," thought I, "we are here to work, not to play; and when the work is over, we have, thank God, our own homes to play...
...analysis and criticism and afterwards to the interpretation of a minuet of Mozart or a scherzo of Beethoven by one who himself ranks high as a critic and a composer. Mr. Paine is willing that all those not regularly members of the elective, but wishing to hear him play the various movements analyzed, should be present during the hour. The lectures are given at half past one, Wednesdays, in Lower Boylston...
...were in the front row, at which he seemed taken a little aback; but he was soon put at his ease by our making him give the story of the Medea at length. He had studied it up, he said, in order to get the full benefit of the play. What a relaxation it would have been to him! But other things were in store...
...less crimson into his already falsely drawn picture. It does seem a little odd, now that we think of it, that "the eleven-men game was a concession originally to Harvard, made two years ago," when we recollect that two years ago, in the autumn of '75, We played Yale with fifteen men. It again seems a little odd that "she [Harvard] gave us no proper notification, official or otherwise, of the proposed change," when it was expressly stated in the challenge we sent Yale early in November, that we wished to play with fifteen men. With these trifling corrections...