Word: closers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...batting was about even, but the Volunteers proved themselves much the superior team in the field. The Crimsons led up to the fifth innings, when accidents happened to their battery which prevented them from playing in their respective positions. But for these accidents the score would probably have been closer. The best fielding was done by Holmes, Dame and Sturgis, while Dexter, Holmes and Bancroft excelled at the bat. The score by innings...
...predecessors. Dr. Bancroft was drawn from Andover, Prof. Tufts from Exeter and Prof. Gallager from Gildiston, and Dr. McCosh and others represented the faculty. The association is doing a good work, and seems likely to accomplish at least one of its objects, - the existence of a better and a closer feeling between Princeton and the New England preparatory schools. PRINCETONIAN...
...plan proposed by the Base-Ball Association for the regulation of expenses and the closer consolidation of athletic interests at Harvard, is worthy of praise. Doubtless, flaws will be found later in some one of the many provisions of this scheme, but in the main it is good. We would suggest that a clause be inserted providing that "no officer of any athletic association shall be a member of this committee." It would also be very desirable to have at least one member of the committee, a graduate, or some one of the instructors interested in college athletics. This...
Last evening a meeting of the base-ball association was held in Holden Chapel. Mr. S. C. Winslow, '85, was elected a member of the League Advisory Committee. The following plan for a closer union of the college athletic organizations was adopted...
...Brooks Herford of the Arlington-street Unitarian Church, addressed a large audience in Appleton Chapel yesterday evening. The singing by the choir was worthy of a keen appreciation, and the solo of Mr. J. D. Merrill, '89, in the hymn, "Oh! For a Closer Walk with God," was especially well rendered. The text was taken from the 96th Psalm, the 9th verse, "Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness." In the old Hebrew usage this was taken in its liberal meaning, and a beautiful dress was considered necessary in worshipping the Lord. The beauty of holiness makes...