Word: account
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...CRIMSON board were not photographed yesterday afternoon on account of the storm, but will be photographed at the same time next Monday...
Candidates for the freshman nine at Yale are in training under the supervision of the members of the University nine. They are coached daily in base-running and sliding. No practice in batting is given on account of the poor light in the cage. At the rink, a building near the colleges, practice in passing and the work of the batteries is carried on. No men have been dropped as yet, but the number will be reduced in a few days. There is great interest displayed by the different candidates and some remarkable ability has been developed. The battery...
...first paper on "Class Crews, Past and Present," is an interesting account of the beginnings and early development of the Harvard interest in aquatic sports. Very few students to-day know anything of the changes which have brought rowing into its present high repute. We look with pleasure for the continuation of the narrative. The last prose article is "How John Swinton came to go into Business." We do not think that Swinton as portrayed here was very logical in his search for a profession. Instead of looking for the higher types among the lawyers, the doctors and the ministers...
...account of the nine is, at this season of the year, necessarily incomplete. We hope to publish a more complete account later. Harkins, of the Holy Cross College team, about whose playing much has been said, is not in college...
...requisite pounds. Its chief weakness is in dropping, and it is doubtful whether any improvement is shown over last year's team in this respect. The probable make-up of the '88 team will be Pease, Baldwin, Chase and Balch, although Balch is now unable to pull on account of illness. Out of about seven candidates for the '89 team, Marquand, Raymond, Endicott and Perry will probably be selected. There are about eight freshmen trying for positions on their team, and the final make-up is yet doubtful. Higgins, Tallant and Fitzhugh are the candidates for anchor...