Word: wente
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lateness of the season, it was out of the question to try to arrange for three additional games. The two nines agreed, however, to play a third and decisive game in New York on the 5th of July. For the purpose of playing this game, our nine went to New York, at an expense of several hundred dollars. After staying there a couple of days we were informed by the captain of the Yale nine that it would be impossible for him to keep his men together until the 5th, and so our nine came back, leaving the game unplayed...
...passed over President Johnson's veto, putting a high tariff on copper. In 1872 Mr. John Hayes proposed a reduction of ten percent. on all duties, a scheme which so pleased Congress that it was passed only to be changed, however, in 1875, when the tariff rate went back to what it had been prior...
...college" who makes it a public boast that he reads no newspapers. That would be shameful if it were a fact, but I question it. No man who can read, and is in the possession of his senses, could so shut himself out of the world, unless he went off and lived as a hermit beyond the boundaries of civilization. The instructor may say, and possibly even think, that he does not read the newspapers, but you could corner him on cross-examination. It is a silly boast, and especially silly when coming from a college instructor. - [Progress...
...after all, an exotic imported from the Parisian ateliers, where the students indulge in such ferocious tricks on new pupils that death has several times been the result. It was an occurrence of this kind that caused the atelier of Paul Delaroche to be closed when that master went to Italy, taking his pupil Gerome with him. The rising Russian painter, Basile Vereschagin, on entering the studio of Picot to learn the rudiments of his art, refused to be made the victim of the rough treatment to which it was proposed to subject him. This consisted in attaching...
...fall meeting of 1881 Machado, '83, was elected captain, and it was decided to play for the college championship. For this purpose the team went to New York, where a series of games was played on the Polo Grounds with the following result...