Word: split
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they are old, worn, and battered, some so full of splinters as to be unpleasant to touch, and others so uneven as to make it impossible to stand them up. The balls are in insufficient quantity, there being few small ones, and those for the most part chipped or split. Add to this that the alleys are seldom lighted till five o'clock or after, that there is not a trace of a sponge in any of the cups provided for them, and that the chalk is fragmentary and scarce. These defects can be remedied at a trifling expense...
...from political significance as possible. Many men, I think, would refuse to march, if they had to do so under any political transparencies. The simplest way to avoid any such trouble, is for the general committee to forbid strictly all political demonstrations in our battalion. This would avoid any split in our ranks...
...Yale freshman opened the game by hitting Baker all over the field, while Hickox kept Harvard down to five hits in as many different innings. Goodwin split his thumbing the third inning and Morse, though stopping fairly, was to tally unable to hold hickox, and missed eight third strikes, and allowed two of them to reach first. Had Hickox been well supported, fifteen men would have been out on strides. The features were the batting of Marsh, Sheppard and Hickox, and the pitching of Hickox and the fielding of Sheppard, Ayer, Hickox, for Yale. The best playing for Harvard...
Aldrich, the Adams pitcher, showed up very well on Saturday, as a large number of the hits scored against him were due to the poor fielding of the nine. Pocock, the catcher, caught a plucky game, as he had a split finger...
...that time were mostly men of mature years, who frequented the university more immediately for their own instruction, and without any direct practical object; but younger men soon began to be sent who, for the most part, were placed under the superintendence of the older members. The separate universities split again into closer economic unions, under the name of "Nations," "Bursaries," "Colleges," whose older members, the seniors, governed the common affairs of each such union, and also met together for regulating the common affairs of the university. In the courtyard of the University of Bologna are still to be seen...