Word: fall
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Runs at the fall of each wicket...
...Harvard was obliged to accept the date of Friday May 20 or else abandon altogether the chance of holding the games this year. It was a choice between leaving Cambridge during the week, and breaking seriously into the important period of college work, or permitting a blow to fall on athletics which the graduates of the two colleges had arranged between Harvard and Yale with so much care and with such sanguine expectations. Rather than allow these athletics such a set back, Harvard has chosen to break into her college work and grant Yale the benefit of a week...
...Princeton foot ball eleven has decided to row this spring, to get themselves into trim for foot ball practice next fall. Their boat was purchased from the Dauntless Boat Club, of New York, at a cost of $275. It is made of cedar and thirty-five feet long, by four wide and a foot and a half deep. There are positions for six oarsmen, with sliding seats, and it is rowed from the gunwale. The boat is in excellent condition, though very heavy, weighing about 500 pounds. The old boat house is to be refitted...
...ball team has to come from its gate receipts. For this reason the drain on the class is one that is not felt very severely, but if there are not enough men watching the games to make the gate receipts amount to anything, then the manager will have to fall back on his class for subscriptions. Going to games is one of the easiest possible ways of subscribing money, and moreover it gives the nine a great deal of encouragement...
...Phelps of the English department, has nearly completed a book on "The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement," which will be published in the fall...