Word: error
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...error was made in yesterday's review of the catalogue. The total number of those connected with the University is 1874, while 1662 is the total number of students...
...Fields, Parton, Stoddard, Bayard Taylor, Eggleston, Harte, Howells, James, Aldrich, Lathrop, Stockton, Piatt, Cable, Crawford, Fawcett, Gilder, Harris, Carleton, Mark Twain, Burroughs. It is possible that some name has been put in one or the other of these lists on the wrong side, but there can be no considerable error, and any one can add to either list according to his own judgment without materially disturbing the balance...
...will say, though, that Yale has always made a mistake in looking so earnestly for beef to fill her shells. Beef may be advantageous in the rushline of a foot-ball team, and I believe no doubt it is, but I certainly believe boating authorities make a great error in paying so much attention to weight. Naturally a heavy man possessed of proportionally increased strength is a desirable person, but I have often noticed that college crews pay more attention to securing men of weight than to an investigation of the sinew which the candidates may possess...
...made what seemed to be one of his old-time hits over short-stop's head. But Wiestling ran back swiftly, leaped in the air and captured the ball with one hand, a marvellous catch. In the first inning Harvard scored twice on hits by Willard and Wiestling, and errors by Flagg and Sullivan; and in the fifth two more runs were added by a base on a passed ball, another error by Flagg and hits by Henshaw and Foster. In the eighth inning, hits by Wiestling, Smith and Phillips, aided by a passed ball, netted two runs. The Rollstones...
Cambridge went first to the bat, and scored a run on a hit, a wild pitch, and an attempted put-out. Harvard retired in order. The visitors scored three runs in the second inning, aided by three bases on balls, a hit, a passed ball, and an error. Harvard again failed to score. A hit and two errors netted Cambridge another run in the third inning, while the crimson was unable to get a man farther than third. The visitors closed their score in the fourth, by scoring a run on a base on balls, aided...