Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Tablet tells us that a Magic Lantern has recently been presented to Trinity College. Surely this announcement will strike a tender chord in the soul of each of our readers; many, perchance, will be unable to restrain a silent tear when they recall the delights of happy childhood's hours. Ah! would that some kind benefactor of our College might be as generous to us! Perhaps such innocent pleasures would wean us away from the gross immorality and vice which prevail among us! But stay! The Tablet further says; "Its chief value does not consist in its ordinary...
...standing; if with industrial schools, why, the Baldwin locomotive works of Philadelphia could turn out, with practice, a very attractive and formidable crew of apprentices. .... And yet Harvard will stand and dicker with institutions having no claims whatever to collegiate prestige. .... If Harvard makes a big strike to get other colleges on the Thames in the university season, I hope the Yale crew will not pat in an appearance. Harvard can't stand it more than one year...
...announcement that permission has been granted to the Senior class, by the Committee on Theatrical Entertainments, to give shortly in Boston a series of two or three theatricals will, no doubt, strike many with surprise. Yet such is the fact. The difficulty of obtaining such permission has been so great of late years, that entertainments of this kind are almost matters of the past. Yet the Committee have been pleased to consider favorably a petition sent in by some members of Seventy-Nine, and have given their assent, imposing very few conditions. These performances are to be given...
Fifth Inning. - Ripley led off with a two-base hit, took third on Tyng's miss of Downer's third strike, and scored on a wild pitch. Downer was hit by a ball from Walden while running to second, and declared out; Walden was caught by Latham to Thayer; Brown hit hard to Holden, who jumped for the ball, but made an excusable error; stole second, and scored on a wild throw by Tyng. Harvard scored four runs on base-hits by Howe and Nunn, a sacrifice by Tyng, and errors by Brown, Walden, and Hutchison...
...caught Holden off his base and put him out on the home plate, Latham taking second during the play and scoring on Funkhouser's wild throw to cut him off at third; Nunn took his third on a wild throw to first by Funkhouser, who had missed his third strike; Alger then went to the bat amid great excitement, and hit a splendid ball to centre field, bringing in Nunn; he then took second and third on Funkhouser's errors, and scored on Thayer's base-hit; Thayer, by a wild pitch and good base running, reached third...