Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that really so though? By Jove, glorious news! I can get more sleep then; for I'm so sleepy now when I'm called up that I can't get awake until the second bell is rung. I have to stretch and yawn every time before I strike...
...made since our game last spring. It is not our desire to find any paltry excuse for our lack of success; but we cannot help feeling that we have learned again the very old lesson of defeat from over-confidence. That such was the cause of our defeat must strike every one who reads an account of the game, and notices that during the first-half, with the wind blowing hard against us, the score stood one touch-down to nothing, in our favor. We cannot too highly praise the fine runs made by many of the Princeton team...
...competitor will be allowed to enter under a false name, and the right to refuse or strike out any entry is reserved...
...they meet, that such and such a man is to be opposed because he happens to be a member of the Tweedledum Society and that so-and-so should be supported because he belongs to the Tweedledee Fraternity, they would show themselves worthy of respect as men and would strike a blow at a relic of boyishness. If the offices are filled without reference to the artificial lines which cut up the class, and adaptability is the only criterion by which candidates are judged, we venture to predict that in every instance the result will be satisfactory...
...only to retire in one, two, three order. George Wright and O'Rourke led off for the other side with base hits, but the Bostons failed to score, George Wright being caught napping at third, and prettily thrown out by Thatcher, who purposely muffed the ball at the third strike. In the second inning, Harvard again failed to score, but had two men left on bases. Schafer scored for the Bostons, the next three men retiring at first. Score, 1 to 0 in favor of the Bostons. Neither Nine scored in the third inning. In the next two innings Harvard...