Word: exceptionably
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The curve delivery in base-ball pitching, says the Philadelphia Press, was the greatest change ever introduced into the game, and in these days, when an old-time straight pitcher would be knocked out of the box in one inning, there are a good many claimants for the credit of...
Last Thursday, it will be remembered, a notice was published in these columns asking all interested in shooting to meet in Holden Chapel to take steps toward the formation of a shooting club, and a notice to the same effect was posted in Memorial. In response to this call about...
Mr. George Augustus Sala writes to a London paper :-"It is possible that with the exception of Mr. Wilkie Collins, nobody will agree with me when I say that our boys of the upper and middle classes, between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years, pass a great deal too...
The prospects of the eleven are brightening. After the game with the Stevens, the New York Tribune announced that "it was generally conceded now that Harvard would be the champion this year." Although this is a rosy-colored view which possibly would admit of dispute in Yale or Princeton circles...
The finals in both singles and doubles of the Harvard tournament were finished on Saturday. Singles-Presbrey, '85, beat Wheelwright, '85, 6-0, 6-1, 6-3. Doubles-Hoyt, '85, and Taylor, '86, beat Warren, '84, and Bacon, '84, 5-7, 6-4. 11-13, 6-4, 6-1. The...