Word: field
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Litchfield was given a trial at third, in place of Stevenson, and, though his batting was very weak, he fielded his position well, making six assists, one putout, and no errors. Rand played his usual fast game in the field and did some pretty base-running. He stole second three times...
...Williams nine were unable to bunch their hits and nearly all of their errors were costly. In the second inning, when Chandler lined out a hot base-hit to left field, Doughty let the ball go by him and it rolled down the track, enableing Chandler to score. Heffernan's errors in the fifth also resulted in runs for Harvard. In the eighth inning, Edwards took Plunkett's place in the box. The score follows...
...Soldiers Field represents an effort to get more room for athletics than Holmes Field afforded. The field has been found to be wet and an attempt was made to drain it, not wholly with success. The plans now being carried out will remedy the trouble. As for malaria, Holmes Field is more likely to be malarial than Soldiers. It was once a swamp. But now there is no more risk of illness on Soldiers than on Holmes. The time for a new boat house is not far away. Then all the interests will be centered on Soldiers, and there will...
...Hollis, and said in part: The Corporation is an historical body, and has a well established policy, but we do not have to do with its history more than thirty years back. Then there was but one play ground, the Delta. In 1869, Memorial Hall was planned and Jarvis Field with other land was bought for athletics. Then came Soldiers Field and the Longfellow gift. The Corporation wishes to provide ample ground for out-door exercises. The present Corporation consists of seven men all successful in their callings. They know what every student needs: not an abnormal muscular development...
...undergraduates in order to support the men and help them to do better work. He said that a team ought not to need this kind of support; that it ought to accustom itself to playing under disadvantages, and that it ought to play even better when on the field of a rival team than when in Cambridge. These are, no doubt, the conditions under which an ideal team should play its games. But, from an undergraduate standpoint, there is no team which cannot do better work if given the hearty support of the students, and there can certainly...