Word: slight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cannot be said that the play to meet the curving ball is more difficult than the play to meet the, varying pitch and break of well-bowled balls at cricket. In base-ball curves there is no room for chance to come in; at least we may neglect such slight differences as may arise from local peculiarities of atmospheric density. It would be perhaps worth inquiring how far the effectiveness of a pitcher's curving would be affected by the barometric pressure. Imagine the captain of a base-ball team warning the nine before play began that they must allow...
...Princeton, Saturday, Yale succeeded in winning another game from Princeton. King pitched for Princeton and did very well. Stagg, however, played his usual brilliant game. During the seventh inning the athletic club house was discovered to be on fire, but after a slight delay the flames were put out. The utmost courtesy and pleasant feeling were maintained throughout the game, and when the fire was discovered both nines worked together to put it out. There was no contested point during the whole game, an unusual occurrence for Yale-Princeton contests. The score...
...engagement of this kind. The certainty of an adequate supply, which a monopoly brings, is at once an obvious convenience to instructors, and in the Society's hands, a means of effecting material savings for all students. The Society will sell all text-books to students at a slight advance above cost, which will bring its prices considerably below those of ordinary importers or booksellers. The Society intends to sell text-books at the smallest profit possible, making, in this case, an exception from its regular business...
...beautiful sport from being ruined." The writer of the article was either utterly ignorant of the facts of the game or else maliciously misstated them. The game was a gentlemanly one throughout and no "slugging" whatever occurred. Hale was accidently hit on the head, but his injury was so slight that he finished the game without feeling any inconvenience from it. The New Yorks won the game entirely by means of their superior, skillful play. Their treatment of our team was everything that could be desired and we were much surprised at the editorial in the Tribune...
...Professor Dyer - has been superseded; Course 11 is a new course. It will be conducted by Professor Allen, and will be an introduction to the critical study of Homer; Professor Wright will give a course in Greek History (600-300 B. C.); it is numbered 12. There are other slight changes, which will appear on closer investigation than can be given here...