Word: score
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...implication at least, when you exclude from your lis's every American writer's works? What inference must a student draw who comes to you saturated with Emerson, lovingly familiar with Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes and Lowell, knowing Irving and Hawthorne by heart, ready to write essays by the score on Cooper, Sylvester Judd and Brockden Brown, or to discuss the works of Paulding, Poe, Prescott, Motley, Park man, and the rest, but who, for lack of familiarity with Scott, must fail in his examination? Is Scott, then, the one writer of fiction whose works an American boy should read...
...first of the series of handicap contests of the Yale Athletic Association, Bayard, '90, put the shot 31 ft. 10 in., the best actual score, and Sherman won the high jump by clearing...
...arranged in the positions. There are five forwards, rushers as they are called in the college elevens, three half-backs, two backs, and one goal keeper. The construction of the goal posts is the same as you will see on Jarvis Field at Harvard in the fall, but to score in the Association game you must put the ball under the crossbar instead of over it, and touchdowns are not known...
...asked the English foot ball expert something about the number of teams he pulled a weekly Birmingham paper out of his pocket and showed me a full page devoted to summaries of games that had been played since the issue of the previous week. There were clubs by the score, and the number gave one something of an idea of the interest in foot-ball in England...
...verse "At Evening" is rather a commonplace production; "The New Year" is well rounded, but lacks strength and any noticeable beauty of thought. As for "Bits from the H. P. C. Play" they can hardly be excused even on the score of their being mere "padding" to fill up the number. While such versifying is very good for a song when the listeners won't hear the words in any way, it seems rather hard to expect anyone to enjoy reading them...