Word: account
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...baseball game with Middlebury which was to have been played this afternoon has been postponed on account of the condition of the diamond on Soldiers Field. The game will be played Monday afternoon...
...Mill of Time," by G. H. M., narrowly misses being a very successful story. It relates the disillusioning experience of a "cub" reporter on a great daily; and these experiences are racily told in an account crammed with newspaper incident. This account, however, is rather arbitrarily placed between two quite different scenes, one in a club and the other with the boy's father. The relation between the three episodes might more plainly be shown; or else, the three episodes might be made more distinct, thus making of the story three character-sketches, as the writer evidently intended...
...University basketball team was defeated by the Fall River Y. M. C. A. team at Fall River Saturday night by the score of 23 to 17. Smith, left guard for Harvard, was unable to play on account of illness, and Underwood took his place. This change in the Harvard line-up at the last moment weakened the teamwork. The game was fast and snappy from the very beginning, and the score at the end of the first half was 9 to 9. The second half was even more closely contested than the score shows for Harvard kept the ball...
...Yale last June I can only state that no claim was made for him at that time by the gymnasium authorities of that institution. . . . The evidence that Mr. Carver did use 'straps' in making his record at Yale is so indisputable, that I am lost to know how to account for his denial of that fact. The most charitable view to take of the matter is that Mr. Carver thinks that the tests that he made at Yale and the test that Mr. Herbert made at Harvard were made according to 'the same system.' Unfortunately this is not true...
...shading, and as a whole, the concert can not be said to approach the standard set by the Sodality in the past. The execution of the music from 'San Toy" was inferior to that of any of the other numbers but the selections were well received, presumably on account of their previous popularity. The best numbers of the programme were "Selections from Faust" and "Die Schoenb unner...