Word: evens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...close to 300 or over; and on the bases the men are doing better. Currier's catching is as energetic and effective as formerly and his throwing is excellent. Briggs fits in splendidly at first and fields his position well, and McCall and Simons around second base are covering even more ground than last year. The outfield, with Captain Dexter, Harvey, and Pounds, is fielding well, but Pounds is not playing as well as last year yet, and uses poor judgment with his throws and while running bases. In the first Annapolis game, Hartford's work was very promising...
...Tinckom-Fernandez' "Clerk o' Cardiff" there's a whiff of good story, an insistent refrain, and a manner of words and rhythms reminiscent of Kipling through Alfred Noyes. "Persicos Odi Puer", a happy immigrant translation from Horace by Mr R. J. Walsh, might perhaps have taken even more advantage of its "freedom...
...years has not road closely the baseball columns of the daily papers, this article shows the amazing rapidity of growth possible in the technical language of a popular sport. Start who knock holes in batting averages are hold friends; a "comer" who "has a long way to come" and even the divagations of a star, who, though assured that he "cannot be-touched," nevertheless "worries himself wild," and toward the middle of the game "goes up in the air and stays there," are understandable; but those conditions at Yale that do not favor a pitcher's arm, give then uninitiated...
...impossible for any Harvard man, who has seen the play, not to regard it as a false and absurd representation of Harvard life, which does not even plead the excuse of being a travesty. There is abundant proof that the play has been accepted as authentic in many of the large cities in this country. It was applauded at Yale...
...great elements in the degradation and violence of the Russian people has been the excessive taste for liquor, even among what should be the hardy element of the population. In all the struggles the people will be at a continual disadvantage, having poor equipment and no unity or confidence in each other. The political advancement of the people can be attained only by moral education, and while this is being fostered, the population must be held in check by the aristocracy...