Word: account
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...management of the Junior Baseball Team has received a challenge from the Yale Junior Team for a game to be played this month. It will be remembered that the Ninety-eight Freshman teams of Harvard and Yale met in football and rowing, but that on account of faculty restrictions the Freshman baseball games had to be given up. As Harvard Ninety-eight took the football game and Yale Ninety-eight the boatrace, each after the closest kind of a contest, the proposition to settle the undecided supremacy in baseball is an excellent one, and there is no apparent reason...
Taking into account the poor condition of the wicket, the score of the Harvard eleven was good and showed the benefit of the in-door batting practice. At the bat, Drinkwater, Comfort and Scattergood did the best work; both Adams and Hastings bowled well, only 41 runs being made off them. The fielding of the team was sharp and every chance was accepted...
Harvard succeeded in defeating Williams at Williamstown Saturday in a ten inning game. Although the fielding of both teams was very door, the game was an exciting one on account of the hard hitting. As soon as one team made runs the other was able to brace up and tie the score...
...Soissoas, then at Paris, by his apprentice, describing the siege and capture, by the king's forces, of the town of Soissons, which is in sympathy with the Duke of Burgundy. Though the apprentice himself remains throughout a somewhat colorless onlooker, he manages to give us a striking account of a fifteenth-century siege, with its excitement and its horrors. In this story, too, there is sensation, but it is not of a morbid kind...
...Hollister '97, who has been absent from College on account of ill health, returned yesterday afternoon and replaced Sullivan in the '97 boat...