Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Ernst's pitching was wonderfully effective and Thatcher's catching almost faultless. Our outfielders had a good deal of work to do, and did it without an error. The only two serious faults in our nine seem to be want of judgment, at times, in their base running, and a tendency to become nervous when the bases are full...
...desire to attempt an exposition of the sources of these evil communications, and to suggest some means by which at least a diminution of such occurrences may be effected. And it is only because the writer sees that the increase of such publications is likely to effect some serious results that he feels at liberty to broach the subject...
There appears to be trouble of a more serious nature at Vassar. The Mis. declares that there is a "screw loose" in the "moral sentiments" of the collegians, in consequence of which young ladies habitually abstract newspapers containing "scientific articles" from the reading-room...
...College has been singularly fortunate in escaping damage by fire. As is the case in France and Germany, where fires are equally rare, the complete occupation of most of our buildings by tenants who are active in suppressing the first outbreak of flame is a strong protection against serious injury. That this fire, breaking out as it did in the middle of the day, was so destructive, can only be attributed to its origin in a room unused by day, and to the misfortune attending the first well-meant efforts of the fire department...
...with coxswains, there would be no difficulty in having the boats shoot the bridges, one boat under the draw and the others under the proposed arches. The only disadvantage of the plan is the difficulty of carrying it into execution; and this, it must be confessed, is a serious drawback. If the change in the construction of these bridges should be made, it would be done at the expense of the city of Cambridge or of the State, according as one or the other has control of the bridges. Neither would have any advantage in making the change, and unless...