Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Every one whose name appears in the catalogue is allowed to buy at this afternoon sale. Thus far the general sales have been very small and few undergraduates have purchased Yard and Memorial tickets. Those who are holding back are reminded that this is the last opportunity for them to secure the necessary tickets for Class Day. There are good Sanders tickets remaining and a few Tree tickets also...
...Newport has been abandoned, as suitable accommodations could not be secured. The men will be taken to Quogue, L. I. instead. The backs will report for work early in August. The line men will go in training September 1. All of last year's team, with the exceptions of King and Blake, will be back. Phil King will be with the team until after Thanksgiving...
...told me that the Columbia freshman crew is the "worst freshman crew" he ever saw. Still, their stroke, Pierrepont is an excellent oar and their improvement may be more rapid than Harvard '97, whose crew today was rowing in very fair form. Hollister, by the way, has been put back in the boat at No. 2 in place of Sleeper...
...hundred yards run Bordman '94 allowed a man to pass him on the first lap and was not quite good enough to win back the advantage that he lost, though it took several minutes for the judges to decide as to which man breasted the tape first...
...first, fifth and sixth innings. In the first, with Tenney and Steere on second and first bases Corbett made a beautiful catch of Cook's high foul. Both base runners tried to advance a base and Corbett threw to third to catch Tenney there, but he ran back to second and Cook threw to Dickinson, catching Steere at first...