Word: againe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The Harvard Club did try them on May 15th and failed. They changed the personnel of their nine slightly, and met them again, administering two successive defeats which I have already described.
Last night Colonel Bancroft announced his intention of running cars again to-day, and without interruption, hereafter. The strike will probably not last over two or three days more. The company is determined not to yield; the strikers cannot prevent their places being filled by new men; and violence never...
This prophesy was happily correct, though it was made in much the same spirit as that which animated a freshman, who saw an unpatriotic classmate betting against the Harvard nine on the game of the 15th, to "run around, offering odds of two to one on Harvard to the muckers...
May 24th saw the rivals meet again, this time on Jarvis field. After "endless preliminaries" Lowell took the bat, a little after three o'clock, in the presence of an enormous crowd." The Harvard nine, although batting steadily, fielded miserably during the first three innings, the score standing 15 to...
Thus ended the great games with the Lowells, where excitement over athletics between town and gown rose to a higher height than it ever did before, and probably ever will again.