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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Athletics, was the man who was doing it. Arthur Cummings, who played in the Mutuals of Brocklyn in 1872, and in the Stars of Brooklyn in the years proceeding, also was known to pitch a deceptive ball, but as he quit playing professionally about 1874 his work was gradually forgotten and Matthews given all the credit for the innovation. The reason for the curve is something that professional players have never troubled themselves about, and though Matthews and Coleman, and, in fact, any of them, can tell exactly how a ball will go if it leaves the hand...
When the writer of your editorial condemns the choice of Walnut Hill as shooting ground for the club, he shows plainly that he has himself made no investigations on the subject, and that he has either forgotten or never heard the arguments in favor of this choice. Walnut Hill is as accessible as any of the ranges near Boston, and is, as all shooting men know, the best equipped range in the United States, both in respect to its accommodations for rifle shooting, and those for shooting glass balls and clay pigeons. It is hoped that the match committee will...
...time may possibly save us from that daily bane which will soon threaten--a chapel service with the temperature somewhere near zero. The faculty have from time to time done much to increase our interest in morning prayers by improving the services, singing etc., but they seem to have forgotten a very important point-that even students need to be kept above a certain temperature if the interest is to be maintained. It has been all along a crying shame that the chapel has not been properly warmed on cold mornings and as a result of this neglect, there...
...fair way to recovery does not absolve the college authorities from the charge of gross carelessness and neglect. The accident might have cost several lives, and because things turned out much better than there was much reason to expect, the whole matter should not be slurred over and forgotten. The college authorities were responsible for the accident, and the narrow escape from something more serious should be a lesson to them which no amount of fortunate circumstances, nor any lapse of time, should allow them to forget...
...hoped then that the few words here written may arouse some interest in this manly but semi-forgotten sport, and that some other student-rifleman may contribute some suggestions for the formation of a club, to these columns...