Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...reason to be proud of their class Nine. Their already brilliant record was closed in the last of June by winning the series of games with Yale '77. Out of the nine match games which they played they lost but two, - one to the Rollstones of Fitchburg, and the second game in the series with Yale. They have won two games from the class Nine of '76, and two from Yale '77, besides defeating the Excelsiors and Mystics, and tying a game with the Unas of Charlestown. The batting record of each man, with his rank on first base...
...with intellectual tastes and moral characteristics, and accustomed to the prosecution of studies, all eminently fitted to prepare you for your great work; familiar with all the departments both of pupilage and instruction in the Institution, within whose walls you have been nurtured and almost domesticated, as in a second home; your judgment enlarged and strengthened by the ripened fruits of foreign travel, and the observation and study of the best processes of education at home and abroad; receiving a generous and cordial welcome from your learned and accomplished associates to their companionship and chieftainship; and added to all these...
...second would oppose...
...Second, that at Moon's dock, before a crowd of spectators composed of gentlemen and ladies, he, with others of the Yale crew, used the same insulting language in regard to Captain Goodwin, and, appealing to the usual rowdy argument, wanted to fight him on the spot. The cool and gentlemanly behavior of our crew at this time alone prevented a general and disgraceful fight...
...minutes later the starting-gun announced that the crews were off. No signals being used in this race, the position of the crews could not be ascertained till the last mile was entered upon, when the white shirts of Yale showed to the front, with Princeton a good second, and Brown last, steering very wildly. These positions were maintained till with in a dozen boat-lengths of the line, and Yale men on shore were beginning to count their winnings, when Princeton astonished everybody by putting on a wonderful spurt, which sent their boat swiftly to the front, and gave...