Word: account
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Simpkins was forced to stop playing on Saturday on account of a slight indisposition...
...until there were but four men left. Sears drew Knapp, and Taylor drew Brinley. Very few balls bounced correctly, and as is well known Knapp plays directly at the net, while Sears plays a base-line game to a great extent. So that to Knapp it was of no account whether the balls bounced true or not. Sears would have volleyed, too, even though it was playing his opponent's game, were not the balls over weight and very different from what he had been used to. The grounds are beyond repair, and next year the tournament will be conducted...
...second, when Taylor fell and broke or twisted a tendon of his wrist and the play went to Brinley by default. The finals in the singles between Brinley and Enapp were very exciting. The first set stood seven to seven when time was called on account of darkness. In the doubles the Harvard team beat Phelps and Chase of Amherst, 6-2, 6-3; Knapp and Thorne beat Conover and Moffat of Princeton, 6-4, 6-2; Brinley and Hamlin of Trinity beat Garfield and Duryea of Williams, 6-1, 6-2; Davis and Howe of Lehigh beat Danielson...
...congratulate the baseball association on their present firm financial standing. Never before has it been able to start a new year with such a large account to its credit. Heavy expenses were incurred to put Holmes Field in condition for matches, but the new diamond seems to have had superior attractions for drawing a crowd, and in consequence the half dollars have rolled by thousands into the treasury. The financial ability to do what is necessary for the nine removes a great load from the management and ought to enable them to arrange practice games with the very best clubs...
This quaint account of the way in which Harvard was founded is taken from an old pamphlet entitled "An Account of the Foundation of the Colleges at Cambridge in New England," which was printed in London in 1642, the very year in which the first class graduated from College...