Word: errors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...list among the individual members of the crew. By a similar mistake the name of Mr. C. M. Hammond was left out from among the football team. Notice is thus given, so that any one desiring pictures of these two gentlemen, in costume, may not be led by the error in the printed list to suppose that the pictures will not be furnished...
...team knows that it cannot do much of anything itself against an effective delivery, and so devotes its energies to keeping the other side from doing anything. Success in a game depends, too often, not on particularly good play on the part of the winners, but on some particular error or succession of errors on the part of the losers. Base-ball is frequently as much a game of chance as of skill. Some change will have to be made before long in the method of play, and it will probably be inaugurated by the colleges as the leaders...
...base-ball players or "howling swells," and characterizes the representative Harvard man as "simply a quiet, studious young man, only to be distinguished from other well dressed young men by a certain air of intellectualism and that appearance of lofty disdain which characterizes students everywhere. It is an error to suppose that more than a very few indeed of the Harvard students are intemperate or licentious The Harvard man is really not so very aristocratic after all. At heart he is pretty much of a democrat. It is a common remark in the college that there a man is estimated...
...scoring rules "assistance on strikes" is to be especially recorded alone and not as part of the fielding assistance; while the pitcher is to be charged with an error for every base given on called balls. No players are allowed to dispute any decision of the umpire under heavy penalties, and the captain alone is to be allowed to appeal in case of any decision involving a palpable misinterpretation of the rules. These are the only important changes in the rules...
FRED'K J. RANLETT,M. H. CUSHING,WILL. BELDEN NOBLE,Auditing Committee.RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS.Whereas, The error of nineteen cents in the reported cost of board per week for the month of October was due to an estimate by the steward at $600 of an item of expense, which turned...