Word: rather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale University nine returned from its Easter trip on Thursday, having played six games with professional clubs. The nine did rather better work than had been expected, but disappointed their friends by their poor fielding. They made on their trip fifty-eight. base hits, with a total of seventy-five, against eighty-one hits, total ninety-three, by their professional opponents. They scored 29 runs to their opponents' 68, and made 50 errors, an average of eight per game. They would undoubtedly have made a considerably better showing but for several accidents to members of the team, which prevented...
...freshman crew have used to great advantage the week set apart for the spring vacation in getting ready for their race with Columbia. The '89 crew has been the greatest loser in men who have left their boat to take seats in the 'Varsity crew and it is rather doubtful, if, in their present condition, they do any better or even as well as they did last year. The junior and senior classes will each enter strong crews and between them the race for leadership at the finish will be well contested...
...every-day strife, can never be the home of the deepest thinkers and the most attentive scholars. The very fact that Columbia is in New York may work untold evil instead of countless benefits. True the atmosphere of the metropolis is a great educator, but is it not rather unhealthy when breathed in by those who work upon antiquities or upon quarternious? Philosophy needs must be influenced by the place where it originates. Utilitarian morals and intuitive methods supersede abstract ethics and deductive principles when the thinker is thrown into the whirl of a great city. There is much talk...
During the exercises the students became rather uneasy, and their conduct could hardly have been called a model. Paper darts were thrown from the galleries, while whistling and other like pleasantries interspersed the proceedings...
FRESHMAN GLEE CLUB. - The rehearsal this evening will be rather short, beginning a 7 o'clock sharp. It is absolutely necessary that every one should be there promptly at that time...