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Dates: during 1880-1889
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That consolidated nine is quite a scheme. It is well worth considering for next year, even if it amounts to nothing this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 6/16/1887 | See Source »

...that if any one could knock their pitching about at pleasure, they would be rather costly at that price. The Englishmen, however, though they may have begun to suspect that there must be more in base-ball pitching than met the eye, could not but maintain their opinion that even with base-ball bats, the bowling, or rather throwing, of the best pitcher ought to be easily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Base-Ball and Cricket. | 6/16/1887 | See Source »

...play began that they must allow a little more than usual for X's curves because the barometer is unusually high! Yet undoubtedly the air must more effectively deflect a spinning ball when the barometer is at thirty inches than when it is at twenty-nine inches. At cricket, even with the most perfect wickets, the break must be notably affected by accidental peculiarities of the ground. We have all of us seen the champion step forth from his place, while the ball was dead, to pat the ground where the ball was likely to pitch, and we have even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Base-Ball and Cricket. | 6/16/1887 | See Source »

...yesterday's CRIMSON giving the reason why so few games have been arranged by the University base-ball management for the time remaining before the Yale game. It may not be out of place in connection with this subject, to offer a suggestion which may prove of some value even though it is not followed out entirely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/15/1887 | See Source »

...will probably sound strange for the graduates of Harvard, even those who have left within comparatively recent years, to hear that Class Day will not put an end to all the grinding of the college year. Five important courses are announced for the benefit of those desiring to take advantage of the opportunities offered at Harvard for study - botany, chemistry, geology, physics and physical culture. The summer school of botany will have the advantage of being connected with the Botanical Garden. This course has been given for several years, and last summer there were thirty-eight students in attendance, nearly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Schools at Harvard. | 6/10/1887 | See Source »

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