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Those who assembled on Jarvis yesterday afternoon, were treated to the worst exhibition of ball playing which has ever taken place on the field. The visiting team presented a set of men whose playing perhaps equalled, but did not excel that of youths of ten summers. There was no redeeming feature to their play but the work of the pitcher, who was debarred from swift pitching by the lack of a catcher. 90's change battery, Kielty and Vaughn, was put in. Kielty is a promising pitcher, but is a trifle wild. The battery, on the whole, did good work...
...Coulson, on the negative, criticised severely the ground taken by the preceding speaker. Mr. Gladstone, said he, has denounced this Coercion Bill as the most causeless and insulting bill ever introduced into Parliament. Instead of being the home of criminals, as so many say it is, Ireland is a country exceptionally free from crime, and statistics prove it. Under coercion, in 1881, the number of crimes committed in Ireland was more than four times greater than those committed in 1886 when there was no coercion. Relatively to the population, England and Scotland are far more criminal countries than Ireland...
...best and the bravest. The land promised the Jews was a good one, but strange and full of dangers, where a, nation was to spring up beloved by the Lord. This is equally true of our country, the time is a good one, the best one that God has ever sent, but dangers of various kinds are ahead. Every evil by being crushed can be made to serve the purposes of the Lord. Greatest of these evils at the present time may be placed side by side, socialism and laziness. It is scarcely possible to conceive of a sin that...
...base-ball subscription for the Andover nine this year is probably the largest ever raised...
...last lecture of the course on rail roads was delivered last night. The audience was the largest that has attended on any evening. At the close of the lecture Mr. Hadley stated that the audiences of Sever Hall were without exceptions the most attentive ones he had ever met in his life, and amidst applause the lecturer withdrew from the platform. The course has certainly been a very instructive and enjoyable one, fully satisfying all expectations raised by comments on Mr. Hadley before he came to Harvard...