Word: follows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...trust to numbers, we can get some interesting results. In 1883, out of the 972 students of the college, 192 took English courses other than those required by the faculty. It does not follow that 192 different students studied English, for some may have taken more than one course, but that the number of men in all the courses in English amounted to 192. Bearing this inaccuracy in mind, we may now see to what results we are led. In 1883-4, 20 per cent. of the students studied optional English; in 1885-6, 453 out of the 1006 students...
...standing committee of electors of Harvard College report the follow-result of the ballots for nomination of overseers...
...other classes, especially '89 and '90, have just reason to be pleased with the efforts of their crews. As for '88 who worked hard and faithfully, let them cheer up and determine to follow the example of '87 and lead the crews in their graduating year...
...Fails to get his body swing at the beginning of the stroke. Should keep his knees well under him during the recover. Clips badly, and rows out. Is very slow, and should follow No. 5 more closely. Must use his stretcher to better advantage...