Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Shea's "Our Sphinx" is a wild yarn of college life whose hero is a mathematical Swede addicted to dope. It is effectively told...
...playing the University baseball team defeated Colby 5 to 1 yesterday afternoon. The game was featured by poor playing, although but three errors were registered against each of the teams. Only one hit was made off Whitney, while James yielded three. Three University men reached first by intercepting James' wild pitches...
Every member of the editorial aggregation played in major league style. "Steamship" Hall held the opposing stick-wielders in awe-struck submissiveness, while "Red" stiles hung onto his hot stuff with well-nigh sublime efficiency. In the field, "Wild West" Ingram brought exclamations of delight to the lips of every beholder, and accepted the most difficult chances with utter sang froid. Prexy Graves was a demon at the bat, and scampered around the bags like a yearling gazelle; and "Duffy" Lewis came through with a three-bagger every once in a while...
...Lonergan, Babson. Home-runs--Gannett, Reeves. Bases on balls--Off Davis 1, off Martin 1, off Whitney 1. Left on bases--Harvard 6, Pilgrims 5. Struck out--By Mahan 5, by Frye 2, by Davis 2, by Garritt 1. Double plays--Reed to Abbot to Nash. Passed ball--Waterman. Wild pitch--Whitney. Time--2 hours, 30 minutes, Umpire--Grimes...
Professor Copeland will give his last reading of the year in the Dining Room of the Union tonight at 9 o'clock. The doors will be closed at five minutes after the hour. The selections chosen are the murder scene from "Wild Justice," by H. M. Rideout '99, and the laughable burlesque in three acts, entitled "Behind the Beyond," by Stephen Leacock, the Canadian humorist...