Word: evens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...bold man who would prophesy the fortunes of Mr. MacKaye's new play on the stage. It is so unlike anything that has been seen in the theatre these many years that parallels of any kind are hard to draw; and yet it has so much that is striking, even startling, in it that a theatrical sensation is by no means out of the question. "The Scarecrow" is a prose "tragedy of the indicrous," based upon a suggestion derived from Hawthorne's "Feathertop"; but the purely satirical purpose of the original story is replaced by an ethical significance vastly more...
...England", is entitled to hearty praise; the cheery, manly tone, the felicitous choice of descriptive terms, and the musical swing of the lines give it permanent value. "The Sound of the Sea" is a fairly successful experiment in rimed hexameters; one may object to the quasi-rimes "heaven" and "even," "fonder" and "wonder," as well as to the expression "memory of remembered faces"; but the verses are in general melodious, and the dreamy sadness of tone reflects one side of the effect of the sea-sounds. The other poetical pieces are creditable in thought and wording; they all show...
...match was very close, it being even up for the first half. In the second half there were four tie holes, and of the rest Wilder got three to Corkran's two. Wilder received a gold medal as University champion and Corkran, as runner-up, was awarded a silver...
...most sensational baseball games ever played on Yale Field, the Freshman team broke even with the Yale freshman after fifteen innings, the game being called on account of darkness with the score 2 to 2. The game was a pitcher's battle from the very start, and had it not been for fielding errors, neither side would have scored. McKay pitched the entire game for the Freshmen, allowing but few hits and striking out 15 men. Yale used two pitchers, Carr and Tommers, and it was not until the second man was put in the eighth, that Harvard scored...
...only real chance for comparison between the teams was afforded by the contests with Andover, Yale winning, 1-0, and Harvard breaking even. 2-2. Both game were hard-fought...