Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Philadelphia on the very same occasion when our cricketers made such poor play with Fothergill's curves. For Mr. Buckland's bowling proved altogether too much for the best of the base-ball batsmen. Again and again did these players, keen to track the ball curving through the air, fail to follow the break of the ball from the ground, nearly every ball going past the bat, though it had seemed to them that with such a bat and no curving in the air, it would be impossible to miss the ball...
...confined to them. It will be felt in this community by the breadth of idea it will inevitably introduce here. The active interchange of thought which is the outcome of a properly directed club effort is certain to produce a higher intellectual standard among the members, and this cannot fail of a reflex action on the community in which they move and associate. In union is strength is true of intellectual effort as well as political or any other co-operation. The gentlemen who met yesterday afternoon are highly encouraged by the prospect before them, and feel certain that...
...Reward. The above reward will be paid to any one who has clothes soiled or stained if I fail to remove the same, (provided the stain is not from any kind of acid). J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard Street...
...been cancelled. Another date for the second game has not yet been decided upon, but it may be that this is the last week the men will have in which to practice, and good work must be done, as there will be no excuse for them if they fail to win the second game with Harvard. - Yale News...
...Reward. The above reward will be paid to any one who has clothes soiled or stained if I fail to remove the same, (provided the stain is not from any kind of acid). J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard Street...