Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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AMONG other mathematical authorities who denied the possibility of the "twist" in pitching a base ball, was one of our own professors. The heresy, having the countenance of so great a name, spread rapidly among the students, until some even of the disciples of the materialistic school of philosophy doubted the evidence of their senses and trusted to the light of reason. But alas for theory! Last Saturday the pitchers of two of the leading ball-clubs succeeded in pitching around the corner of a fence built at right angles with a line drawn from pitcher's stand to catcher...
...many students. Surely there are several instructors here who are competent to enlighten our mental darkness in this regard, and relieve us from our painful, not to say shameful, ignorance. Feeling the benefit of the Shaksperian and Homeric readings, and of the lectures on French literature; like Oliver Twist, we cry for "more." We hope the Faculty will find it possible to supply our need in this matter by a course of weekly lectures, given in the evening if necessary, to begin in the not distant future...