Word: wellings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...will no doubt be of great benefit to both, encouraging Harvard, while, if nothing more, impressing Boston with a sense of the "glorious uncertainty" of Base Ball. The day was cold, the attendance slight, and yet the game was one of unusual interest; the presence of the "veterans" Bush, Wells, and McKim in the field adding not a little to the pleasure of both spectators and players as well as to the success of Harvard. The game opened with a hard hit of George Wright and an excusable muff by Tyng, followed by a base hit to centre for Barnes...
...invented for the past, and every exceptional case of transgression in modern times dragged into comparison with a shadowy ideal of Mr. Josselyn's own; when this portion of his stock in trade has become exhausted, he resorts to calling good things by bad names, which does quite as well. Strengthened by these advantages, he has succeeded, within the narrow compass of some seven hundred lines, in knocking modern society quite out of time. Any praise of ours must sound feeble after the tribute of one Albert T. Bledsoe, LL. D. and editor of the Southern Review, who has discovered...
...with much reluctance that they finally took this step, for the study was so entirely satisfactory that the affection which even on such short trial had been formed for it was not easily overcome. But, after all, it was a thing of a useless kind; well enough, perhaps, for those with a fondness for it, but certainly not worth a serious consideration from a body of men having, like our respected Faculty, so much weightier business to conduct. In a course which could by any possibility prove beneficial to those pursuing it, there would, no doubt, have been appointed...
...Roman Law, the book was not of the slightest consequence. No doubt it was expected to appear when wanted; and if not, it would not make much difference. Those who were foolish enough to choose such a study could wait eight or ten weeks well enough; or they could drop the study when they became tired of waiting, and grind up a little back work in some other branch. It would do them good, both by inculcating the habit of industry and by illustrating the terrible uncertainty of human expectations...
WHEN permission was first granted to the undergraduates by the Corporation to use Lower Massachusetts for a reading-room, an association was at once formed and the hall well furnished. It was supposed by all that the only thing lacking in past years had been the countenance and aid of the college authorities in what was conceded to be a great want here, and a want in marked contrast to the privileges of some other colleges. But to the surprise of all, before the Reading-Room had completed a year of its existence, the interest in it seemed to wane...