Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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AMHERST 9, HARVARD 8.Notwithstanding the rain, a fair sized audience assembled yesterday afternoon to see our nine defeated by Amherst. The day was as bad as it could be, cold and windy, with a drizzling rain. Amherst came to the bat first, and by errors of Phillips and Crocker, a wild pitch and two terrific hits by Sullivan and Stewart, succeeded in making four runs, three of them earned. For Harvard, after Coolidge fouled out, Baker took his base on Gardener's muff of Taylor's throw, stole second, and came home on a passed ball. Phillips, who had taken...
...comes into prominent notice, embracing both the other divisions, which may be fitly characterized as the ridiculous. A few of the verses coming under this head are worthy (from their utter lack of merit) of further consideration than they have yet received. It is really appalling to see how bad verses can be made by one of the "ridiculous poets ;" to be made the unwilling witness of the complete lack of sense and of music their verses show. Recently, we noticed a poem, which, after a lugubrious account of the hollowness of things in general and the fearful yearning...
...game, but not much money was up, excepting some that was bet by Harvard men who came down to back Brown and lost." It is rather surprising to find such a statement as this in the Herald, one which, even if it were true, would be in very bad taste, when in reality it is utterly without foundation...
...wild throw to Doron, a wild pitch and a base hit by Souther. To this they added three runs in the fourth inning on a base on balls, several hits, a wild pitch and two passed balls. Brown made one run in the fifth on several bad errors by Yale, and in the seventh by hard hitting and more errors they succeeded in making two more, thus making the score 4 to 3 to Yale's favor. In the eighth and ninth innings, however, Yale got in some hard hitting, and aided by Gunderson's very wild pitching made four...
...game at Fitchburg was not played on Saturday, as a telegram was received stating that on account of the storm the grounds were in bad condition...