Word: worked
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...took our seat on the well-filled benches expecting and hoping for a close and interesting game; for, although desirous of our Nine's success, we would gladly have seen Princeton make it close and exciting work for them, as they did last year. But in this we were grievously disappointed. From the very first inning our men began their heavy batting, getting two two-basers at the start, - Princeton in the mean while piling up errors in rapid succession, - until our score reached old-time figures, while Princeton's, through her inability to hit Ernst, remained severely modern...
...goodies are not wholly to blame for the wretched way in which they do their work. What kind of attention can we expect a woman will give to sweeping and dusting, who is paid only forty cents a week for the care of each room under her charge? The trouble lies in the parsimony of the financial managers, who prefer to employ the untidy, clumsy, unintelligent Irish at the rate of fourteen or eighteen dollars per month (in proportion to the number of rooms cleaned), than to secure, at slightly higher rates, neat, careful, and efficient workwomen...
...best (lately translated under the title Sidonie). Charles de Bernard deserves not to be forgotten. The volume entitled Le Noeud gordien contains several of his stories. Ferdinand Fabre has devoted himself to what might be called the novel of clerical life in France. L'Abbe Tigrane is a work of great power. It will carry the ordinary reader into a world entirely new to him. In addition to the titles I gave last year I ought also to add: Erckmann-Chatrian, L'Ami Fritz; Droz, Les Etangs; Mery, La Guerre de Nizam; and Sue, L'Orgueil...
...forbids contestants themselves to bet on the result of a game or race in which they are to play or row. This rule is based on what experience has shown to be a fact, viz. that when men bet on themselves, the additional excitement and nervousness interfere with their work; and in proportion to the amount of the bet is the extent of this interference. The more important the match, and the more exciting it is in itself, the more strictly is this rule to be enforced. Both the Nine and the Crew are soon to take part...
...Yale, last Saturday. The defeat was not due to any fault of the Nine, who have, since the commencement of the season, improved every opportunity for practice offered them, and who have labored early and late to put themselves in the best possible condition for the season's work; yet had not the rains of last week prevented the Nine from playing with the Lowells and the Manchesters, a better score in the Yale game would undoubtedly have been the result. The issue of Saturday's game will cause a more intense interest to be taken in the second game...