Word: shutting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game was not an interesting one or worthy of special commendation. While Ninety-five shut out their opponents from the first to the eighth inning there was throughout a certain amount of carelessness about the play which made it appear as if the men were not thoroughly interested in their work. It was enough for them that they were ahead, and so they did not play their best or make very strenuous efforts to increase their lead. A slightly stonger batting team than Hopkinsons would have won the game. One of the first things that the team will have...
Lehigh went all to pieces in the first three innings, letting in ten men. For the next four innings, however, they pulled themselves together and shut out Harvard from any runs. In the eighth they went to pieces again, and let Harvard pile up six more runs. In the ninth Lehigh got her only run which was earned. Below is a summary of the score...
...effect, however, as the air in many of the rooms continues abominable. The surprising part of it all is that the men themselves do not take one of the remedies into their own hands, and open some windows. A class will sit through a recitation with every window tight shut, will grow drowsier every minute the air grows worse, and yet no one will have the common sense to open two windows a few inches at the top, and set some good air circulating. Much has been said, and wisely too, about the sanitary necessity of pure air. There...
...needless to say anything since the grievance is one not difficult to remedy, but one which a very little attention could set right. For some time past there has been a great deal of irregularity in the supply of hot water in the gymnasium. Some evenings it will be shut off altogether, before most of the squads have finished training; at other times the supply of hot water will be curiously erratic, coming for five minutes and then refusing to come for fifteen more. Under ordinary circumstances a man has to wait in line for his bath long enough without...
...Professor Peabody remarks that the American people, who are certainly the quickest-witted of the nations, will not long be so dull as to keep a protective tariff on our way of municipal work for the sake of party politics. It may be a wise policy for us to shut out of the country the importation of good Saxon stockings, but at least we might have free trade in good Saxon ideas...