Word: though
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...despise what is called a full-pitched ball - that is, one which does not touch the ground before it reaches the bat. The cricketer can have but a poor eye, in fact, he must be but a poor player, who cannot hit such a ball; and though if he is careless about it, he may readily hit a catch, yet with a moderate amount of care he can hit a full-pitched ball not only easily, but safely. Now the English cricketers saw none but full-pitched balls thrown in the base-ball game they were watching...
...considering that an income about ten times as large as an English curate's is paid a first-class pitcher in America, it will be readily understood that if any one could knock their pitching about at pleasure, they would be rather costly at that price. The Englishmen, however, though they may have begun to suspect that there must be more in base-ball pitching than met the eye, could not but maintain their opinion that even with base-ball bats, the bowling, or rather throwing, of the best pitcher ought to be easily...
...CRIMSON giving the reason why so few games have been arranged by the University base-ball management for the time remaining before the Yale game. It may not be out of place in connection with this subject, to offer a suggestion which may prove of some value even though it is not followed out entirely...
...this part of the country. Prof. G. L. Goodale has usually been at the head of the school and the list of those who have taught in the courses includes such names as Farlow, Penhallow and Trelease. Instruction has been given chiefly in the botany of flowering plants, though Dr. Farlow conducted courses in the flowerless plants in 1875, 1876 and 1877, and last year Mr. F. L. Sargent did the same. This year the course will include lectures and laboratory work in both flowering and flowerless plants. - Cambridge Tribune...
...Margaret and. Harold, from their environment, yet one at the same time realizes, even more distinctly, that the passions and natures of these people are true to humanity. What is better still, they are true to a phase of humanity which is neither degraded nor trivial, but which, though of necessity marked with error, is nevertheless essentially noble and high. We know of no instance in fiction where a love between man and woman, which could not exist and be given expression to within the bounds of honor, has been depicted with the quiet strength and delicacy, and with...