Word: point
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...certain students, is not one that recommends itself for universal adoption. We admit that we have never belonged to a base-ball nine, that we are prejudiced, and that we perhaps even deserve to be called squeamish, but still we cannot help objecting to the practice. From an aesthetic point of view blouses of gray trimmed with crimson are not beautiful, and we have been told that one of the advantages gained by boarding in Memorial Hall is the refinement given by the artistic surroundings. Our second objection, it is true, is a weak one, but still is an objection...
...article in the Brunonian complains of the poor treatment of the Brown Freshman Nine at Yale. It seems that although the Yale men undertook to pay the expenses of advertising for the Brown Nine, when it came to the point they positively refused to do so; that they made the men pay for their own dinner; invited them to a supper consisting of a keg of beer, and left them to find their own way to the railroad station at night. In addition to all this, the Nine were robbed by sneak-thieves; so that, altogether, it is not remarkable...
...Tyng and Latham caught him at second; Wright made a fine pick-up of a low throw by Nunn; Fessenden caught a hard fly; Tyng reached second on an error by Hunt and a stolen base, but was left by Hunt's good fly-catches. The game at this point began to look very doubtful for Harvard, the score standing Princeton 1, Harvard 0. Princeton retired in order. Holden hit an easy fly to Furman, who muffed; two passed balls sent him to third; Wright struck out; Latham struck to pitcher, who caught Holden off his base...
...seems plain, then, that to insist on good reading would not be out of place on the part of the Professor; but if Mr. Child, who has probably been hardened by long tribulation, has decided to pay no attention to this point, it would still be well for those who take the elective next year to make up their minds to lighten his weight and their own, by putting a little more life into the recitations, and trying to find pleasure in what they read. It is strange that so many who think it worth while to take a course...
...once began a systematic omission of everything which could be twisted into a broad allusion. Of course, it is not desirable to read a passage which is merely indecent; but to omit one simply on account of a word which is not used in society, is certainly straining the point a little. It is like the use of "limb" for "leg," "retire" for "go to bed," and other similar absurdities, and reminds me of Moliere's prude, who had the bare limbs in pictures carefully covered...