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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...defeated Princeton by a score of nine to three. With this victory each college in the three-cornered league has one game to its credit, with this advantage for Harvard that, whereas both Yale and Princeton have each met one defeat, Harvard's record is, up to this time, clear. As the intercollegiate series now stands, Princeton is practically out of the race, having lost two games and gained but one. Thus our chief opponent is to be, as of old, Yale. We certainly have many reasons for self-congratulation at the result of yesterday's game; yet we must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/8/1888 | See Source »

...error by short, and hits by Willard and Henshaw. In the fifth, with two men out and with the bases full, Bates made a timely single to left, Campbell followed with his fourth consecutive hit, a home run, the ball going to the law school building. With the bases clear, Quackenboss followed Campbell's lead and made a hit in the same place, which netted him four bases. Knowlton followed with a three-baser. Willard with a double, and Henshaw ended the inning by a grounder to pitcher. Harvard scored ten times during this inning. In the sixth, Gallivan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amherst defeated by Harvard. | 5/3/1888 | See Source »

...this we sincerely hope will be done. Brilliant individual playing cannot hold out in the long run against steady team work, and it is to make every man understand thoroughly what team play means that games have been arranged. Every effort should be made to start out with a clear record of victories, in order that the result of the final game may be equally gratifying, and that '91 may feel proud of her achievements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/28/1888 | See Source »

...Thought Transference" is a clear statement of the present condition of the work done by the Society for Psychical Research. The author does not attempt to express personal views on the subject, but lays the facts before the reader and leaves him largely to his own conclusions. The time has come when intelligent men can no longer close their eyes to such questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Advocate." | 4/24/1888 | See Source »

...officers of the H. A. A. If he had read the editorial more carefully, he would see that this was not the case; but on the contrary, that it was directed against men in college who have ability they will not develop. If the editorial in question was not clear enough in this point, the spirit of the editorial of Saturday's issue was unmistakeable. We quote a few lines: "As a whole the meetings this year have not been up to the standard of former years; not, we think, because of any negligence on the part of the students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/28/1888 | See Source »

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