Word: closer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were the throw of Jones from centre to home which cut off Collins who attempted to run home after the fly was caught, and Gardiner's splended catch of a long fly which he captured after a long run from left field. The score would probably have been much closer had not two men of the eighty-six nine been caught napping at first in the ninth inning. Eighty-eight won the game by bunching their hits in the fourth and ninth innings. Following is the score...
...pupils that assists them in their teaching, and at the same time increases their interest in the work and the workers, or, as is very often the case, adds an interest where no interest had before existed. The students, on the other hand, have to profit from all their closer relations with those above them in knowledge, experience, and consequent wisdom; and by conversing informally with those same superiors, to learn to look upon them in a new and very generally in a more favorable light. Another advantage, that comes (it is true indirectly) from these conferences between students...
HARVARD, 3; BROWN, 1.Our first championship game with Brown has resulted in a victory for Harvard, although the game was much closer than the exhibition game had led us to expect. With the exception of a few inexcusable muffs our nine played a good game; the work of both batteries was exceptionally good...
...well to add that while the Literary Monthly is founded primarily for undergraduates, we shall endeavor to publish in each issue an article by a professor or by some graduate of note. By this plan, we hope to make the magazine more valuable in itself, and to bring into closer connection those who represent the university in the world at large, and those undergraduates who are doing representative student work. Another feature of the magazine will be its book reviews. Whatever literary ability exists in Harvard to-day is distinctly critical in tone and spirit, and every effort will...
Faculty and students are inevitably drawn closer together, and a free interchange of views is encouraged, which does much towards removing misunderstandings and producing that spirit of harmony and confidence so necessary for the highest degree of success...