Word: sore
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have made a considerably better showing but for several accidents to members of the team, which prevented a display of the full strength of the nine. Dann, the catcher, wrenched his back. Stagg was handicapped by a lame arm. McConkey, second base, had two fingers knocked out and a sore hand besides. As will be seen by the figures, the nine batted heavily, making an average of ten hits per game. From present indications the team will be the heaviest batting one that has ever represented Yale, and when it meets Harvard the fielders of both clubs will have their...
...Yale University boat crew is in a very bad fix at present. Stevenson has diptheretic sore throat and is unable to practice; Wilcox has gone home with bronchitis, and Capt. Rogers, Wells, and Gill are all suffering from very bad colds...
Arthur Boykin, a graduate, then spoke on "Africa in America." He emphasized what a former speaker had said of the sore need of competent teachers in the South, of the eagerness with which the negroes seize all opportunities offered them. The speaker gave a short sketch of his life, better to show the need of his people. Mr. Boykin was followed by Marguerite La Fleshe, who spoke of the difference of the condition of her people, the Omahas, to-day, and fifteen years ago when she lived among them. Then they lived as tribes; but in the interval they have...
That his body is almost as sore as his head...
...practice of the candidates for the 'varsity nine is beginning to lag. Many of the candidates are suffering from sore thumbs and fingers...