Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., June 8.- The Harvard crews arrived here at 1.20 today. On account of a fog in Long Island Sound, they missed connection with the Hudson River boat and came by train. They did not get dinner until about six o'clock. After dinner both crews took a short spin...
Both crews of the U. of P. have been at Poughkeepsie a week. Columbia arrives today; but Cornell will not leave Ithaca for another week on account of examinations...
...account of the nearness of the end of the college year the Harvard-Yale correspondence chess match, which was begun in the latter part of the winter, has been discontinued. The correspondence method of play requires a long time and only about twenty moves have been made in each of the two games. Several methods of deciding the match have been proposed but it has finally been decided to let the games lie over until next year and to finish them next fall. The match is very close and for this reason the Harvard players prefer to postpone it rather...
...uphill game for eight innings, and because for twelve successive innings she kept Harvard from scoring. The defeat for Harvard was a disappointment, not only because the recent playing of the nine made victory possible and probable, but more because the nine let the game slip away on account of their inability to hit the ball at critical moments. There were any number of times when a hit would have given the game to Harvard and every time, except in the fourteenth when Haughton made a three base hit which scored Clarkson, the men failed to accept the chance...
...increased by the fact that at least twice in the game our Nine had the victory in their hands and then let it slip away by their careless playing. Yet, while every Harvard man is disappointed because the Nine was defeated, there is no reason for feeling discouraged on account of the result of Saturday's game...