Word: putting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this game both nines showed improvement in batting and fielding. Our Nine only offered one chance to be put out behind the bat, while twelve men struck out off Ernst's pitching. Tyng, Latham, Wright, and Nunn played best in the field. Howe and Latham led at the bat. Wright maintained his well-earned reputation for sacrifice hitting, - a skilful play, which appears to be totally unappreciated by spectators. The game was played on the Boston Grounds, and resulted in a college victory by the score...
...other two professors happened to be ill, and he spent his evenings in reading themes. The college laboratory, too, was in a rather uncertain condition. There was one large room in the building, - the college building was really very fine, and a steel engraving of it was put each year in the catalogue, - and on one side of this room were a couple of dozen bottles, some test-tubes, and an air-pump; on another side were some rocks, a few fossil bones dug up in the neighborhood, and a huge wasp's-nest presented by one of the students...
...been said that universities are the last places into which reform penetrates; but we feel that there is a tendency in the right direction here. If the German system were adopted, Harvard would no longer train up hot-house scholars, but men who would put forth their best energies, not for marks, but to assimilate their studies...
...Hold on, Smith," said I, "this will never do. Have you put poetry in an editorial...
...that branch, or, in case the instructor has reason to believe that the course is taken on account of its ease, there should then be an increase the next year in the amount of work done in the course, and a clear statement of the additional work should be put in the list of electives...