Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...famous twenty-four inning game, played during the past week by our Nine and the Manchesters, is the most astonishing development of base-ball possibilities yet recorded. Although the result was largely due to the remarkable efficiency of the pitching and the extreme deadness of the ball, yet it showed in a striking manner, and under the severest test, the superior fielding powers of our Nine, as well as their steady nerve and excellent discipline. The luck seemed to be entirely with the fielders as against the batsmen, but this always seems to be the way in a game where...
...Williams Athenoeum has a new board of editors, who set forth a very sensible credo on the objects of a college journal. They believe that "literary articles" should "occupy only a subordinate place." Unfortunately we find in the same issue an oration four and a half columns long on the "Historical Awakening Culminating in the Reformation." The Athenoeum should take as its motto, "Video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor." We must acknowledge, however, that the oration is worth publishing...
...river near the boat-house, since the warm weather has come on, presents quite a lively scene of an afternoon, between half past four and six, and more frequently may be seen the hapless tyro swimming toward the float with his dismantled shell...
...given much satisfaction to all the boating men; it avoids endless confusion on the morning of the races, and affords the captains of the different crews time to draw the lots properly. Rather contrary to expectation, the entry-book was well filled on Friday evening, there being thirty-four names entered for the six-oars and thirty-two for the four-oars. There was the usual tardiness in getting started, and it was almost twelve o'clock before the first race took place...
...next race was the four-oars, the boats and men taking the following positions: Holworthy, Harriman (stroke), Bull (3), A. Hooper (2), Woodward (bow); Weld, Littauer (stroke), Simmons (3), W. Trimble (2), F. M. Ware (bow); Holyoke, LeMoyne (stroke), Danforth (3), Brewster (2), Stiles (bow); Matthews, Jacobs (stroke), Smith (3), Parker (2), Shillito...