Word: reasoning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...other I do not expect to see. Why? Because, instead of taking place on Holmes Field, where I could easily go without any trouble or loss of time, the games are played in Boston, and at the extreme end of Boston. I suppose that there is some good reason for this, but it seems very strange that, when the College has provided us with a convenient and good field, it should not be used. That the Boston grounds are better, I do not presume to doubt; but I think the advantage of having the games played where the students...
...pitching a base ball, was one of our own professors. The heresy, having the countenance of so great a name, spread rapidly among the students, until some even of the disciples of the materialistic school of philosophy doubted the evidence of their senses and trusted to the light of reason. But alas for theory! Last Saturday the pitchers of two of the leading ball-clubs succeeded in pitching around the corner of a fence built at right angles with a line drawn from pitcher's stand to catcher's. We trust that this absolute proof that the "twist...
...class of seventy-seven. The class of seventy-eight have always got on remarkably well together. They have had numerous meetings, all of which have been harmonious. There has never been the slightest complaint that one society has encroached upon the rights of others; and there is no reason why the Class-Day officers should not be elected as smoothly, as easily, and as satisfactorily as were the officers of the Sophomore dinner...
...here was a veritable Bellesleian. Was that the reason she had those dark lines under her eyes? Still that did n't prevent her from looking pretty in her war-paint; and, but for her glasses, she would not look too wise...
WHENEVER the ranks of the United States postal service in Cambridge are invaded by sickness or resignation, the students are called on to undergo the inconvenience of waiting until noon for their mail. The reason our postman rather than any other is called on to do double duty is that the Mount Auburn people make a fuss if their mail is delayed. Now where, in the Mount Auburn district, seventy-five letters are distributed, between two and three hundred are delivered in college. The injustice is apparent, and all that remains is to make a fuss...