Word: resultant
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...whole, we may be well satisfied with the result; especially, on comparing it with the first game last year. The Yale Nine were beaten, twelve to two, by the Hartfords, a much weaker Nine than the Bostons. Had our Nine been able to keep up their playing of the first five innings, we might have returned better satisfied; they excelled rather in striking than in fielding, making as many base hits as the Bostons. We thought that the Harvards showed rather less nerve and pluck in playing an up-hill game than we have been led to expect from them...
...result of the examinations will not be communicated this year to the candidates personally, at the close of the examination on Saturday, as heretofore, but will be communicated to them by mail, in the following week...
...develop mind, but the latter has a larger and higher aim, - it has to do with soul. The former trains the intellectual faculties, the imagination, the memory, the judgment; the latter, the moral faculties, the character, the will. Science is the fruit of instruction; virtue should be the result of a good education. Now, even admitting that instruction in the lyceums is of a superior character, - notwithstanding certain fundamental faults which I may speak of hereafter, - it can be stated without fear of contradiction that education in these institutions is deplorable and pernicious...
...race at that time. There were far more Freshmen at Springfield than men from any other one class, and the interest was such that there was not a man but wished either to be on the crew himself or to express his sympathy with the oarsmen. The result of the race by no means killed this interest, and the manner in which the defeat was borne gave some idea of the enthusiasm which victory would have aroused. The few days at Springfield, when all were moved by the same excitement, did more to bring the class together than did months...
...pats J. Bull on the back approvingly, because his Highness has shown less interest in the race of this year than in those of former years. The critic entirely overlooks the fact that the race was a foregone conclusion, there not being the slightest doubt of the result under ordinary circumstances...