Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...method the teams which are defeated in the first one or two games drop out and the winning teams play, as last year, seven or eight or possibly ten games. It is also desired to furnish some incentive for teams to keep together from year to year, so that even if some of the members of a team graduate the remaining members will furnish a nucleus the succeeding year...
...result of this method will be that all teams will play the same number of games, and that even if a team loses one or two games it will still be able to improve its position for next year by winning the remaining games...
Yesterday afternoon the 'Varsity nine was defeated by the College team in a game of nine innings by a score of 7-5. The score stood even at the beginning of the eighth inning when the College nine went to bat. Hits by Maguire and Galbraith and a poor throw by Pote to Haughton then enabled the College nine to score twice. In the last two innings, but six men batted for the 'Varsity, A. Highlands proving very effective...
...second trial for the selection of speakers for the Princeton debate will be held on Wednesday evening at 7.30 o'clock in Sever 11. The judges will be Professors G. P. Baker, J. B. Ames, F. W. Taussig, Mr. F. W. Dallinger '93, E. H. Warren '95, W. E. Hutton '95 and Mr. J. J. Hayes. From the twelve men retained from the first trial, an even number, preferably six, will be chosen to speak at the third and final trial...
...Castle 1900, is readable and very interesting. Other contributions in the number are "A Comedy of Errors," by J. G. Forbes 1901, and "My Complication with the Major" by P. G. Carleton '99. This last is the only undergraduate contribution in the number which deals with college or even with American life. It seems rather a pity that the contributors to the Monthly should persist in drawing their inspirations from foreign countries...