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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yale had a comparatively easy time with Princeton Saturday in New York. Carter pitched four innings for Yale and allowed but two hits and no runs. Davis took his place in the fifth and Princeton began to hit more freely. Yale had too much of a lead however and the game was hers from the start. Following is the score...
...mile scratch was the opening event and it was ridden in one heat, six men starting. The first half of the race was very slow, but at the half mile the men began to ride and it was a good race between E. A. McDuffee and P. J. Berlo of the Maldens and H. S. Tyler of the Springfields. On the lower turn Tyler lost a pedal and fell. The other men finished in the following order named, with G. L. Cary of the Press C. C. third. Time...
After a slight rest they began again. They started in playing too carefully, Chase, however, rapidly going ahead. He came up to the net a little more, and drove the ball more often, also placed better and made a couple of brilliant pickups. Hoppin was weakening perceptibly, which he continued to do till the end of the match. He was evidently not in condition for five sets, while Chase was. Chase won the set easily. Score...
Cornell made four hits but these netted a total of nine. They did not put up the game that was expected of them. In the second, they went all to pieces, seven errors were made in this one inning and Harvard's scoring began, For the rest of the runs, the heavy hitting was mainly responsible. The score...
Professor Wright gave a very interesting lecture last evening on "classical studies in America and the classical instruction at Harvard." He began his lecture by speaking of the knowledge of classics at the present time. He then took up the studies taught at Harvard, beginning back as far as the seventeenth century and continuing down to the present time. At the same time an exceedingly interesting account of the requirements and customs at the different periods, was given, together with the studies taken by the four classes. The fact that Harvard has been generally speaking, the model after which...