Word: things
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...other side no advantage. Tyng's return to the field seemed to add new vigor to the Nine. The fielding everywhere was fine. With such a game before us, and the prospect of ten days' more practice, we have every reason to be encouraged. There is but one thing more wanted to increase the chances of success; that is, that the Nine should have the bodily support of a number of Harvard men at the next Yale game. Every one should consider that his presence at or absence from New Haven on the 24th will affect the result...
...Autophones?" said I, "what in the world are autophones? I never before heard of such a thing...
...Well, at any rate, you must see," he said, "that an autophone is the same thing with regard to the voice that an autograph is with regard to the writing. However, I must leave you here; so good night...
...young ladies to my room to hear the autophones of every one, from George Francis Train to my Goody; I set the machine going, totally forgetting that I had left it open during my absence, and had left my chum in the room. Imagine my horror, when the first thing it reeled off was, "If you don't get out of this room, you d -- poco - " I hastily awoke from my reverie, and declared that autophones were out of the question. It would n't do to subject one's conversation to so accurate a recorder...
...answer to this communication has been received from New Haven, and the Yale Navy apparently have taken no action in the matter; but it is certainly a desirable thing to have a single-scull race for the championship of the two colleges, and there could be no better time for it than the week of the University race at New London. If any decision in this matter is to be reached this summer it ought to be made at once, to enable the contestants to make the necessary preparations. As Mr. Livingston has taken the first step, it is only...