Word: better
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...game with Phillips Academy at Andover on Saturday by a score of 15 to 13, through failure to make timely hits. On four occasions during the game the Harvard team was retired with the bases full. Both teams fielded very poorly, but both batted freely, Andover winning by better success in bunching hits...
This result could easily be had by a few talks, the more informal the better, on topics particular or general as the speaker might to qualified. At this moment, there are half a dozen or more men, connected with the University, who could handle such a series of lectures in a most attractive manner. Several are old enough to make their remarks in part reminiscent; others would have little trouble in preparing a few facts that could not fail to interest an audience of College men. And if such lectures are ever announced in the CRIMSON, let us have them...
...should like to suggest that Seniors wearing caps and gowns should make a point of bowing to one another. If wearing caps and gowns is good for anything at all, it ought to give the men in the class a chance to become better acquainted. This is a splendid chance to drop all unnecessary formality. J. LAWRENCE...
...Freshmen yesterday by the score of 4 to 2 in a six inning game. The fielding of both teams was ragged, and the Freshmen especially showed lack of headwork. Winsor pitched very effectively for the Second Nine, except in the fourth inning. Hutchinson, pitching for the Freshmen, showed much better control than in the game with the Boston Latin School. Hamlen at catcher was very slow in throwing to bases...
...better sea-story, however, is "Captain Blood of the Jolly Roger," by R. W. Page '03, which recounts very amusingly the adventure of some pirate-hunting urchins in their "Frigate, Constitution...