Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...making but one. The University team furnished the hitting features of the afternoon. Gibson connected safely four times out of an equal number at bat and Clark got a two bagger and a tripple out of four times up. Bolton also landed on the ball for a three-base bit. In all Harvard got nine hits, but showed the failing which has lost it a number of games; namely, inability to hit with men on bases. Taylor of the visitors, although wild at times, pitched a good game against more experienced opponents...
...Harvard man has got cockles of his heart that can be warmed by applause. Don't be afraid of what the other fellow thinks because you are enthusiastic, but show your own interest-get the ball rolling. You don't need organized cheering, but it doesn't do a bit of harm to have some leader out in front to start the applause. We do not want the old talk about Harvard indifference to revive. It will, if you don't get into the game more. OLD GRADUATE...
...team realizes this situation. We think that very little urging will bring out a large and far more enthusiastic backing than cheered the team to victory last Saturday. We are not overconfident; we firmly believe than the team is going to win, but we also feel that every bit of support the College can give it will count heavily where the result is sure to be close until the very...
...bit of rowing history may interest your readers. Sliding seats date back to a time which is, as college generations go, "immemorial antiquity;" but as any one may see from the pictures in the Newell boat-house or in R. C. Lehmann's "Oarsman," that antiquity is not much over four decades. From the position of back and knees in the older pictures, one may safely infer that the seats were fixed. A few months ago, Professor John Trowbridge, for many years Director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, told me that, in the fall of 1871, he rowed...
...attempt to accomplish this, he was forced to contend against the irresponsibility of a Los Angeles attorney, who in his craving for notoriety insisted upon making public every bit of information, regarding Mr. Burns's investigations that he could gather. He even went so far as to break in and rifle Mr. Burns's Los Angeles office in an attempt to find the detective's reports. Chiefly through this attorney's disclosures Mr. Burns was defeated in his purpose to bring the "big men" to justice and was forced to make his arrests prematurely. Notwithstanding the bribing of his operatives...