Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- A phrase in the recent Class Day circular, containing the word "tradesmen," has not been understood. Please allow me to say something concerning it through your columns...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I voice the sentiments of more than one student when I say that the new raising of the price of reserved seats at the 'varsity games is not only exorbitant but ill-advised. Perhaps the new manager thought himself justified by the precedent of the 'varsity foot-ball games, where 50 cents was charged for a reserved seat. If he did, he failed to recollect that this was a necessary step for the foot-ball management, because of the small number of foot ball games played here and because of the limited accommodations of Jarvs Field...
...part of the Yale fielders, managed to pile up five runs, making the score 7 to 0. From this time on, it must have grown rather dark in the neighborhood of second and third base, or else the umpire lost his eysight, for his base decisions were, to say the least, queer. This discouraged the Harvard men, and seemed to take all the life out of them, and from the fourth inning till the end of the game, they only made one base...
Today the Lacrosse team plays the champion twelve of the world. It is hardly necessary to say that the game will be interesting. All those who appreciate the merits of the two teams will be sure to see this contest. It is those who have never seen a well-played game of lacrosse that we particularly urge to take the opportunity offered this afternoon, Even if the game were not an interesting one to watch, it would be the duty of every one who could to aid and encourage the lacrosse team that for four years has brought the championship...
...meanest kind of "muckerism" was a thing of the past, but in this respect the students of the University of Pennsylvania seem to be far behind the age. In the first place, it was most ungentlemanly and undignified to print on the posters announcing the match that "Harvard say, we cannot play good enough ball to be admitted to the league. Come and see." Before the game, we had always supposed the Pennsylvanians could play good ball, but, as it afterwards proved, the only honorable thing about the assertion was its undeniable truth; and, in addition, we would suggest that...