Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Princeton played rather a loose fielding game; Cooper and Van Etten did their best work. Harlan's hands were in a very bad condition, and in the fifth inning he changed places with Shaw at right field. Moffatt broke a finger in the same inning and Larkin took his place at first base. They were entirely unable to hit Nichols' delivery...
...from his dignity, but placed him for over an hour in a very awkward position. More than this, the matter which he undertook to control was only made worse by his interference; instead of one bonfire, placed where it could do no harm, four were kindled,-those in very bad blaces. The celebration which, if left to itself, would hardly have lasted long, continued half the night, and more than all, a strong feeling of antagonism between the students and officers was developed...
...YARDS HURDLE RACE,contested for by S. Abbott, '87, G. R. Agassiz, '84, J. D. Bradley, '86, and S. Cary, '86. The men got off all right at the second trial and Agassiz took the lead, but fell badly at the third hurdle. He picked himself up and ran on. Cary also tripped, and as he injured his leg did not continue the race. Bradley, who had taken the lead after Agassiz's fall, easily held it and came in first with Abbot a bad second. The winner's time was 19 1-4 seconds...
...first championship game with Yale, which takes place this afternoon at New Haven, our nine carries with it the best wishes of the college for success. Although the last game with Yale was certainly a bad defeat, many causes contributed to this end which have since then been happily overcome. The base running, although by no means perfect, has improved greatly, as has also the fielding and batting. With the remembrance of the Princeton-Harvard game fresh in our minds, we can look forward with confidence to a sharper and more successful play on the part of the crimson...
...writer from Paris says: "I hear ex Governor Leland Stanford of California, who has been here for some time past and who is in very bad health, has decided to give several millions of dollars out of his immense fortune to the founding of a university for the sons of working men. This institution will probably be located in the state of California, and will be named after Governor Stanford's only son, who died recently in Florence of malarial fever...