Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Society will have in stock through the season lacrosse sticks and balls, tennis nets, rackets, balls and shoes, foot-balls, base-balls, etc. Gymnasium outfits and tennis jerseys in stock, or made to order. A new thing in a cotton athletic shirt. Full dress shirts for immediate wear. The new shapes in collars. Evening and street gloves. White and fancy shirts and night-shirts made to order and fit guaranteed...
...Society will have in stock through the season lacrosse sticks and balls, tennis nets, rackets, balls and shoes, foot-balls, base-balls, etc. Gymnasium outfits and tennis jerseys in stock, or made to order. A new thing in a cotton athletic shirt. Full dress shirts for immediate wear. The new shapes in collars. Evening and street gloves. White and fancy shirts and night-shirts made to order and fit guaranteed...
...reconsideration of the decision of the first meeting of the freshman class, they were promised that the subject would be brought up a second time. The freshmen are guilty of a great neglect of duty in not calling a mass meeting before this, and the best thing they can do now is to call a meeting immediately, discuss the question fully, and make the decision final...
...vice-principal and chaplain of the Institute spoke interestingly on the purpose and result of the course of training employed at the Hampton Institute. The first thing that is impressed on the mind of the student is that manual labor is honorable. Yet in spite of the time spent in manual toil, the progress made by the students has been shown to be greater than any of the schools in the South where time is devoted to study alone...
...Herald by Captain Ward on the training of professional base-ball players suggests many points that would apply as well to rowing, foot-ball and any hard out-door exercise. It is the general law of training clearly put before the reader. "The sum and substance of the whole thing," writes Captain Ward, "is that a base-ball player must recognize the fact that base-ball is a business, not simply a sport." And although college athletics are not looked upon as a business, yet the idea in Captain Ward's words is true of the work of any 'Varsity...