Word: error
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...teach other things in addition to these, in order to prepare its students for the ministry. Its teachers cannot help teaching sectarian theology. . . . That part of the community which regards Harvard College as a national institution . . . cannot but feel a deep regret at what they esteem the grave error of its eminent president in his endeavor to strengthen a sectarian school which is connected with the College by no necessary bond. So far as Harvard College has, or is supposed to have, a sectarian character, or even a sectarian bias, so far is its growth impeded, its proper work hindered...
...Inning. Again Yale fails to reach first base; Ernst and Tyng have got into their old-time, clock-like precision. But Harvard does not succeed in hitting Lamb, and although Holden manages to get to first by an error, he is left there. The score is still 4 to 0 for Yale...
...Tyng, for Harvard, goes out on a fly to right-field; Ernst reaches first base on a missed third-strike; Wright steps up to bat, and earns two bases on a long liner out to left field, bringing Ernst home, amidst great excitement. Winsor gets to second by an error of centre-field; and a base-hit will give two more runs; unfortunately Olmstead and Nunn both go out on fouls. Score, Yale 4, Harvard 1. There is a slight hope for the crimson...
...Inning. Hutchinson drives the ball to Holden, who throws it to Wright; Parker, more successful, gets to first on a missed third-strike, - Tyng's only error, - but is thrown out at second, by a neat double play. Harvard's batters again fail to earn first, and the score is still 4 to 1 for Yale...
...merely a question how badly the blues shall be beaten. Nunn is first out. Then Cohen and Holden hit singles; Coolidge gets his base on an error; Tyng and Ernst take a farewell of Lamb for one base-hit each and Wright comes to the bat. For the third time in this game he drives the ball for two bases, but is left on third as Winsor finishes the game by a foul bound, - Cohen having been run out at third. Result: four more runs; making the total, Harvard 9, Yale...