Word: saturday
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...second game of the season between the Bostons and the Harvards was played on the Union grounds on Saturday, 26th ult. After the weak display which the "University" had made the previous Saturday, an easy victory was anticipated for the Bostons. The result, however, was an agreeable disappointment, and the few spectators present were treated to an interesting and exciting game...
...boats occupying rests which have not been paid for will be sold at auction on Saturday, May 3, at the boat-house. There will be five or six six-oared boats, and a large number of others, including single and double lapstreaks. The hour of the sale has been fixed...
...remember the theatricals at Horticultural Hall, this evening and to-morrow afternoon, for the benefit of the H. U. B. C. The programme for this evening (Friday) is "Your Life's in Danger" and "The Follies of a Night." To-morrow afternoon (Saturday) will be presented the "Virginia Mummy" and the burlesque "Anne Boleyn." The Pierian will furnish more of that excellent music of which we so lately had a specimen at their concert...
...Captain Perry's accident, and the fact that the composition of the Nine on that occasion was more the result of chance than selection. But energy in base-ball is not manifested by Freshmen alone. Our University Nine practises every day, and would have opened the regular season last Saturday by a game with the Bostons had the weather permitted. Though several new men will have to be taken in to fill vacant places, the Nine will not differ materially from that of last year, and will be fully as strong. The hour from 12 to 1 P. M. finds...
Perhaps, however, the story is chiefly valuable for affording us glimpses into Yale student life on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. From casual remarks, we gather that whist is a game which is not enjoyed there. Pillow fights are preferred. But even these grow monotonous to the high-spirited Freshmen, and on the afternoon from which the tale dates, we learn that, having stationed watchmen throughout the entries of their building, some Freshmen were indulging in a quadrille. Such an innocent sport is not allowed, however, by the Yale Faculty. It tends directly to worse vices. A step is heard...