Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...idea of a triple league between the three upper classes has been given up owing to its impractibility. The players of the three upper class nines do not think it worth while to give their time and trouble to come out and play in such a league for even if there were such a series, with the freshmen debarred from playing, there could be no real class champions...
...placing both at the net and from the back of the courts, he won the third and fourth sets and made the score two all. The play during the last set was extremely close, neither man being more than one game ahead at any time. The play was almost even, except that Chase's lobbing was the better. Chase finally...
Harvard suffered another crushing defeat yesterday afternoon at the hands of the Holy Cross nine, the score being even to one in favor of the latter. The fielding of Harvard was slovenly and poor and the batting weak; in fact the playing, as a whole, was poorer than one would expect to see in a class game. The team went to pieces at critical moments and failed to pull together at all. Rand and Burgess were the only men who seemed to know how to play ball. The former played a good all-round game, while the latter, although making...
...single scrap of his writing has come down to us. This argument also holds good of Bacon for there is no writing of his to show that he was the author of the plays. If we stick to the argument we shall have Shakespeare, while the critic does not even save his Bacon...
...conditions under which they play are made decidedly unfavorable. Enthusiastic applause is a strong incentive to the players; but applause, pure and simple forms only a small part of the demonstration at the games today. The outcry which is designed to "rattle" opponents is often more energetic, and even in the applause, encouragement is hardly as much the object as discouragement...