Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...victory; a confidence theoretically well founded, but practically disastrous to reputation and pocket. Harvard, on the other hand, had learned by bitter experience the danger of excessive confidence, and knew that the game could alone be won by steady, persistent work. This feeling, with the added inspiration of surroundings, time, and place, gave our fellows an impetus toward success that was irresistible, and that swept their opponents into almost nothingness...
Umpire. Mr. Huse, of Brown University. Struck out, - Harvard. 3 : Yale, 2. Earned runs, - Harvard, 2 : Passed balls, - Morgan, 1, First base on called balls, - Yale, 1. First base on errors, - Harvard, 3: Yale, 6. Time of game, - 1 hour and 45 minutes...
...Faculty at one time, while President Hayes was keeping them waiting, seriously considered the question of not granting him his degree on the ground of "negligence in required work...
These and many other customs of which the book treats all tend to show that the student of the fourth century had about as jolly a time as does the present seeker after knowledge...
...life of an instructor in those days was by no means an easy one. Private tutors were often tossed in blankets, and the lecturers were frequently annoyed by the students singing worn-out songs, - the "Sallies" and "Bull-Dogs" of the time, - or by the talk about the latest dancer at the circus. "You forget all about Demosthenes," says an irate lecturer to his class, "and go on with your songs, which you know by heart already...