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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Oxford. There, too, you will find lots of silly boys with more radical notions than they--thank Heaven!--"have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.' And they are no Hamlets either! For instance, while I was lecturing, a strike of street-car men was going on. I do not doubt the striking employees had their 'grievances' and sufficient cause for self-assertion; it was, however, no affair of the undergraduate world. Yet a contingent of those half-baked boys must needs side with the strikers, making stump speeches about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD COMPARED WITH OXFORD | 9/19/1913 | See Source »

...scheme would really come down to this: he would like the scholastic victor to be carried from the gridiron of intellectual contest on the (figurative) shoulders of his comrades amid the overwhelming cheers of a crowded (symbolic) stadium! Mr. Chubb knows very well he is only trying to strike the undergraduate in that "last infirmity of noble mind...

Author: By H. R. Patch g, | Title: CRITIC ON ADVOCATE ESSAYS | 5/26/1913 | See Source »

...Mahan; but Coolidge ended the inning by flying out to the infield. The third run was scored in the fifth, when Demelman drove a beautiful three-bagger to the Stadium, and scored on Safford's single. Mahan tallied the final run in the eighth. Cunningham was credited with seven strike-outs, and although he allowed seven hits, two more than the visiting pitcher, he kept them fairly well distributed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN, 4; ANDOVER, 2 | 5/22/1913 | See Source »

...Tomes out in seventh for bunting third strike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PENNSYLVANIA DEFEATED | 5/20/1913 | See Source »

...Freshman baseball team defeated Waltham High School yesterday afternoon by the score of 3 to 1. The game was chiefly a pitchers' battle, both pitchers getting 10 strike-outs. Waltham was able to make one run on the only error made by the Freshman team, followed by a hit by Ashworth. There was very little hitting, each team getting three. The Freshman team were enabled to win through eight errors made by the visitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WALTHAM DEFEATED 3 TO 1 | 5/1/1913 | See Source »

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