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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cambridge," with "groups of dudes twirling canes and adjusting eyeglasses." The whole drama is very good reading indeed-to Dartmouth Men. The personal "grinds" in the "Aegis" are almost without number. "Nominibus onusis" here are some of them, "-, 'asinus asinorum'; -, 'I had rather tell ten lies than say a word of truth' -, 'Great Bacchus is my deity." These grinds are doubtless the soul of Dartmouth wit. We may well pity the subjects of them...
...consequently when the Marylebone Club played on June 22, 1814, their first important match, defeating Hertfords hire in one inning, they played on the same turf as that which years before had afforded foot-hold to the moribund White Conduit Club. From 1814 "Lord's" has been a household word in cricket...
...with rests and things). At the same time their policy has been to discourage those games which develop and exercise the manly powers, strength, endurance, pluck and skill. The natural inference is, that the influence of these maidens upon the faculty is demoralizing, effeminating and mollifying (I use the word in its first meaning) in the extreme. Therefore Messrs. Editors, despite a chivalric regard for the gentler sex in general, in this case solicitude for the welfare of our beloved University demands that we "turn the rascals...
...that, we call unreasonable. They knew we could not leave Cambridge any day but Saturday. Therefore we refused to play. In reply they said the class had voted not to play after Thanksgiving day, and intimated with the most charming nonchalance that they could hardly take our word for it, but would like a certificate that we could not play Wednesday signed by 2 members of our faculty. This was somewhat surprising; but within twenty-four hours the paper was in New Haven. Now how in the world, we could play before Thanksgiving, we should like to have somebody show...
...they told one of our team who was in New Haven, and the game was thought settled. We made every preparation and on Friday morning were all ready to start, although we had no word from Yale in answer to our letters. Friday morning a telegram came from New York from one of our own men, saying there was to be no game. The class had had a third meeting and decided not to play after all. With beautiful disregard they here dropped the matter. They were not accountable for our actions-what mattered it if we all did come...