Word: fact
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lowell team played a good fielding game, and Gunnasso caught well. Henshaw's throwing to bases was very poor, but most of the poor play can be accounted for by the fact that the grounds were wet, and the ball slippery. The score...
Dear Sirs:-Cannot something be done to protect us from the wild hordes of the mucker tribe which invade the yard at all seasons of the day and night? The position of a student trying to grind in Holworthy, Stoughton or Hollis is a very trying one. Notwithstanding the fact that a cross-eyed copper drove a handful of us from the Common last year, because that was for the people and we had grounds of our own-a good half of Cambridge's male population-or perhaps a bad half-make the college yard the place for the daily...
Allow me, through your columns, to call to the attention of all Harvard men the fact that the 'varsity nine must win one of the three games to be played with Yale in order to tie for second place with Princeton, two games to win second place, and three games to win the championship. It may seem hopeless to talk of winning the championship, but at least Harvard should be spared the disgrace of being out ranked by Princeton. This has not happened for six years and should not be allowed to happen now. Every Harvard man should...
...Yale race is so near at hand, it may be of interest to know what is thought of our opponents by the men at New Haven. At present and in fact for the past few weeks the crew has labored under several disadvantages in the absence of several of their best men from the boat. Caldwell has been laid off for a week on account of sickness, and Brewster nearly as long. Both however, are at present gaining and it is hopeful that by the beginning of the week they will resume their seats in the boat. The great disadvantage...
...view of the fact that the New York papers have most industriously circulated an utterly false and preposterous story concerning an alleged discourtesy of at Harvard athlete at the intercollegiate games which occurred at the Berkeley Oval, May 25, it is but just that a true statement of the case be made in these columns. The story as it appears in the New York papers, is something as follows...