Word: says
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that the deed is done, much unavailing regret is heard in Seventy-seven. But never yet, as far as I have been able to ascertain, has any amount of lamentation succeeded in transferring the milk, once spilt, into the pitcher again. It now remains for seventy-eight to say whether more milk is to be spilt next year...
...heavenward, fireworks, and singing inadequately expressed her wild joy. But this we can excuse, even though done with noisy obtrusiveness under the eyes of the vanquished, since her signal success was as much unexpected as was our overwhelming defeat. But while acknowledging our defeat, it is but fair to say that Yale played her best game of the season, while we played our worst; that Yale was unusually fortunate at the bat, while we were particularly unfortunate, batting everything usually on the bound, into the hands of their fielders. The resume and score will tell the rest of the story...
...intended to give our readers the war news of the week, but regret to say that the daily papers and the Nation have got ahead...
...luck seemed to be entirely with the fielders as against the batsmen, but this always seems to be the way in a game where good fielding is done. The Nine have reason to congratulate themselves in having, by this game, secured a record which, it is safe to say, will never again be obtained by either college or professional Nine...
LAMENTING the fact that the cities of Montpelier and St. Albans send so few students to college, the Montpelierian says: "We venture to say that the number could be counted on the fingers of one's hands, and then there would be enough left so he could eat in an emergency." If the Niagara Index should see this statement, it would try to prove that higher education tends to cannibalism as well as suicide. The Montpelierian gives the following charming picture: "Our campus, out of study hours, is covered with base-ball players and croquet matches, and our reverend Professors...