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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...freshmen outplayed the juniors yesterday at every point. They played almost a perfect fielding game, and Ames pitched excellently, allowing but five hits, with a total of nine, all singles except two triples by the same man, Hapgood. On the other hand, the freshmen made ten hits with a total of seventeen. Paine was the only man not to get a hit and O'Malley's being for three bases. Not a single freshman struck out. For the juniors, Linfield did the best fielding, having seven chances and accepting them all, making two or three phenominal plays. Frothingham made...
...short, but his strong point is not in handling ground balls. The other error on Harvard's score was made by Hallowell, but in justice to him it ought to be said that any ordinary fielder would have made no attempt to catch the fly. He accepted an almost impossible chance, and unluckily dropped the ball...
This year there are almost twice as many students taking French 8 as there ever have been before...
...remind those members of Ninety-three who have not given their orders for caps and gowns of the notice of the Class Day Committee. According to this, Friday will be the last chance to be measured and it is important that the delinquent ones should bestir themselves. It is almost inconceivable that any senior is deliberately planning to do without these necessary accompaniments of graduation. The mere thought of the figure a few solitary men in ordinary clothes would cut in the presence of their classically attired friends on, Class Day and Commencement is enough to keep a man from...
...bases in the fifth, and no one out, he retired one man on a weak bunt and the other two on strikes. Abbott did some great work at the bat, making three hits in his four chances. Trafford also found the ball surprisingly well. The nine fielded almost perfectly, the one error being made in the ninth with two men already retired. There was poor judgment, however shown in the base running and at least one run was lost by stupid coaching. The play by which Hovey was put out at third was far from complimentary to the nine...