Word: shutting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...arguments for the affirmative side may be summed up about as follows: Immigration is innate in man, and no country has a right to shut its ports to those honestly wishing new homes. Here we have vast extent of lands ready to receive all who care to come. Our resources are practically unlimited and we must have labor to increase and develop them. Now the class of immigrants coming to this country represent a set of honest, industrious men. A great majority being skilled laborers. They are valuable as bringing material as well as economic wealth to this country. They...
...great many men who use the reading rooms in the Library are greatly annoyed by the continual creaking of the doors as they open and shut every time a person enters the room. A little oil would probably remedy the matter if the nuisance were brought to the notice of the proper authorities...
...game yesterday was an easy victory for the Harvard nine. Lovell's team would have been shut out but for Hovey's error and Bates' wild pitch. Our batting was strong and well directed. This was especially noticeable in the seventh inning. With three men on bases, Hovey and Trafford hit long, high flies to the left fielder, and three runs were made on the throws in. On the other hand, the visitors could do nothing with Bates. They made four hits according to the score, but one of these was owing to a bad decision by the umpire...
...long time. The batting on neither side was hard, but enough men got to first to make the game exciting. Several remarkable pretty plays were made and the Lovells were just prevented from scoring time and time again. The game was Harvard's from the start, but a shut-out for the visitors seemed very improbable. Every man on the Harvard team played with a great deal of snap, and the four errors which were made were generally retrieved. Hovey was especially wide awake at short, accepting all his chances finely. Bates pitched a good game, though wild at times...
Those who chose to remain seated at the game last Saturday afternoon were greatly annoyed by a crowd of disorderly persons who kept up a continual promenade before the benches and shut off the view of the field. It was evident either that there were not enough policemen or that the officers who were there were not doing their duty. We noticed also that by the middle of the last half of the game the crowd had pressed down even to the lines of the field. This at any rate must be stopped, for it not only interferes with...