Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...batting of Harvard was good, ten out of thirty-one chances being accepted. In this respect they far outplayed their opponents. The trouble seemed to be, except in the first inning, a total inability to make safe hits when most needed. Harvard reached first base several more times than Yale, but with the exception of Baker they all failed to get home...
Agassiz has rowed in the class races for the past two years; Wesselhoeft has been with this class crew in all its races except the one with the Columbia freshmen, when he was unable to row. His place was taken by Bliss, who has since been in all the class races. Kemp and Penrose are new men, but have both had considerable experience in single sculling. Hutchinson has rowed in four races, Bryant in three, but not in last year's class race...
...great interest among the students which existed when the base-ball boom was started, seems to be dying out, except among the members of the nines. Never has greater enthusiasm concerning anything been exhibited at Columbia than in regard to base-ball during the past spring, and, as events would tend to show, never has enthusiasm so quickly commenced to pass away. Although the association comprises a large number of members, larger, in fact, than any other, it has already been compelled to go into debt. [Spectator...
...winner of three competitions, not necessarily consecutive. Each competition shall consist of a score of 20 clay birds, thrown at 5 angles, 16 yards rise. Ties shall be decided at 18 yards, straight-away, miss-and-out. No preliminary practice will be allowed before beginning the score, except at the discretion of the executive officer. Entries for the cup, 25 cents...
...head of the page, (it was the fourth page, by the way, where there are no illustrations) the unfamiliar title The Yale Quip. Not that the Quip is in any respect like the journal of which it is a manifest imitation, from title page to the last advertisement, except in its typographical work. For we must confess that the paper is a great disappointment. After hearing its praises heralded abroad by the News in such terms of flattery, we expected something better...