Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game of lacrosse between the Somervilles and Harvard which was to have been played yesterday, has been given up, as the Somerville grounds are in a very bad condition...
...five defeat eighty-six. The air was chilly, and prevented very good playing by either nine. The game was chiefly marked by the good pitching of both teams, Presbrey and Crocker being especially effective as a battery. The batting of both teams was very heavy, and the fielding correspondingly bad. Appended is the score...
...think that it is, in a degree, the duty of every under graduate to be present at the games played by his class team. Aside from the mere question of duty, however, we think that men will be well repaid for their trouble. It is not a very bad way to spend a few hours to loaf upon the benches in the sun, and watch a game in which one has a, so to speak, personal interest, or at which one has the privilege of being present "without money and without price...
...addition to the one by which the cost of the grand stand would be $14,000 and to make a report to the college as to which plan seemed to promise the most suitable building at a moderate expense. Only twenty-seven men attended the meeting,-a very bad showing, when we reflect of what great interest to the college as a whole the matter of erecting a grand stand...
...Haven correspondent of the Spirit of the Times, in speaking of Yale's 'varsity crew, says the talk about the men being in bad condition and weak is all trash. The following is from his letter of last week: "All things considered, there is no good reason why these men should not be equal to, if not better, than last year. Taking it for granted that Harvard will present her strongest crew, Yale will, I think, have as reasonable a chance as she did last year. To call Yale's chances poor would be an opinion of hopes and fears...