Word: standings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...region is especially characterized. On the plate representing New England, what is now Connecticut is occupied by two sickly rabbits, Western New York is given up to deer and on the St. Lawrence River, or "Magnus Fluvius Novi Belgae" as the Atlas calls it, a couple of pelicans stand gazing at each other in mute admiration. The author describes North America as being divided into "New France, New Spain, Virginia, Florida, New Granada and California, which are inhabited by copper-colored barbarians of horrid mien. The work cost 300 marks in Dresden, Germany...
...important base-ball games played here. To raise, therefore, the price of reserved seats from 25 cents to 50 is, to say the least, unreasonable. Further, after having defeated Princeton twice, as we have, it is unreasonable to suppose that people will care enough about this third game to stand the imposition of an extra 25 cents for every seat, over and above the usual amount. Perhaps the new manager cannot do better than follow the precedent, established by long years of experience...
...said that $200,000 will be given for Yale's new building which is to stand on the site of the "fence," The structure will be two stories high, and will have a costly porch with a tower on each side of the main entrance...
...endeavor throughout the college to draw those men who come from the same States or sections of the country closer together in their relations with one another by the formation of undergraduate clubs, which, while they serve as a social bond of union between the men in college, also stand ready to lend any assistance or give any advice in their power to men who expect to enter Princeton from the districts which they represent...
...half-past one. The drizzle had ceased soon after leaving the depot, and there was but little question as to the game's being played at New Haven. When the Harvard delegation arrived on the ball field, they found every available seat on the grounds taken, the grand stand was packed with pretty girls seemingly made of blue, vehicles ranged round the ropes enclosing the diamond were covered with blue and blue pennons fluttered everywhere. The Harvard contingent were forced to content themselves with a position just back of first base, and as the grass was very wet, most...