Word: draw
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hunter moved that the president be empowered to appoint a committee to draw up resolutions of sympathy, and that a copy of the same be sent to the parents of Mr. Levi. The motion was seconded and carried. The chair appointed the following gentlemen to serve on this committee : Messrs. Faxon, Griswold and Hunter, who, the chair stated, had been friends of Mr. Levi, and who, he thought, were, for this reason, best able to express the sympathy of the class...
...last year's strongest players, will be unable to play this year owing to illness. Wurtemburg, one of last year's substitutes, will probably be a regular man on the team. The Freshman Class will furnish Rhodes, McClure, Perrin, McClellan, and others as material from which to draw. The first game will be played here with Wesleyan next Thursday. Harvard, Princeton, and Yale will, as usual, form the Intercollegiate League...
YALE, 6; HARVARD 3.On June 29th Harvard and Yale again met on the diamond, this time at New Haven. Although the championship had been decided by the game of the previous Saturday, still this game was of sufficient interest to draw over four thousand people to the Yale grounds. The field was encircled by carriages, and presented a beautiful appearance. Blue was everywhere and not a particle of crimson was to be seen...
When the game was over, and, which is more, decided (for base-ball has at least one great advantage over cricket, it very seldom ends in a draw), the English cricketers were asked their opinion of the play, and were obliged to admit that so far as they could judge the batting seemed very weak. "That is a compliment at any rate to the pitchers," they were told. "But to say the truth," one of them replied, "the bowling - or what you call 'pitching' - seemed weak too. Every ball was full pitched, and any one can hit a full-pitched...
This course will be of great value to those for whom it is intended, and on account of the facilities furnished by the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, will probably draw a number of students...