Word: resultant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...thunderbolt fallen from a clear sky, or had Seventy-seven harmonized Class-Day difficulties, no greater surprise or consternation would have been felt in our College world than was experienced last Saturday evening on the announcement of the result of the first game with Yale. The record of our Nine has been so good this year that much was expected of it, perhaps too much. So, at least, think the Nine, who feel that they get little praise when they win, so much is it taken as a matter of course; but when they unfortunately lose, they are followed...
...second inning resulted in a quick blank for Yale. Thayer gets his base on Wheaton's error and steals second. Ernst flies out to Brown. Thayer is thrown out by short stop to third, and Latham goes out at second in a vain attempt to steal. Brown begins the third inning with a safe hit, but is soon put out at second by a nice bound catch of Sawyer's from Tyng's low throw. Wheaton sends Dow a fly, and Morgan goes out on Thayer's pretty throw to first. Wright, Dow, and Sawyer put out at first...
...probably need to be told that there is in ball playing and in boating a general rule which forbids contestants themselves to bet on the result of a game or race in which they are to play or row. This rule is based on what experience has shown to be a fact, viz. that when men bet on themselves, the additional excitement and nervousness interfere with their work; and in proportion to the amount of the bet is the extent of this interference. The more important the match, and the more exciting it is in itself, the more strictly...
...within two feet of damp, cold walls (lower Mass. last Monday, for example) in a rheumatic, backless chair, and listen to the warlike tread of the officious guardian proctor, all the while attempting - can he be blamed if he fails? - to calmly reason on the probable result of increasing population and capital, on rents, profits, and wages. With stoical indifference we accept the inevitable, but not the ??? of the proctor's boots...
...Bull claimed a foul for Holworthy by Weld. The race between the Matthews and Holyoke crews was closely contested, and the result might have been different had the coxswains of the two boats been more evenly matched...