Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Holmes Field, Saturday, Princeton received its fourth defeat by Harvard this season. About 2,000 people witnessed the game, which was remark-able for fine work of Bates. After the first inning, in which Harvard went to pieces and made a pure gift of two runs to Princeton, the support accorded Bates was excellent. The field work of both nines was good, Princeton excelling in this respect. The visitors could do nothing with Bates, eleven men striking out and two only reaching first on safe hits. The umpiring of McLean was a trille erratic, his decisions on strikes being somewhat...
...followed with a clean single, bringing in Gallivan. Willard cleared the bases with a magnificent base hit, but was put out at second on Bates' hit to King. Bates was advanced a peg on Knowlton's hit, but they were both left on Quackenboss' grounder to Price. In the fourth, Howland led off with a hit, took second on Campbell's sacrifice, third on Gallivan's put out, and scored on Boyden's three-base hit between right and centre. Harvard was blanked again in the fifth, but added one run to her score in the next inning by Campbell...
...fourth and last game with Princeton was played Saturday, and resulted in another victory for Harvard The game was by far the best played of the series and was won only by superior batting. The confidence of the University in the ability of the nine, though somewhat shaken by the defeat at New Haven two weeks ago, has been fully restored by the splendid work in the last two Princeton games. The batting in particular has greatly improved, while the fielding is steadier and more accurate. The game with Yale next Saturday will be the most important...
...fourth revised edition of Mr. Simon Sterne's "Constitutional History and Political Development of the United States" is a neat little volume which has just been published by G. P. Putnam's, Sons, New York. The book is distinctly meant for non-professional readers, and has the advantage of containing in concise form the history of the principal political events down to the present date. Mr. Sterne treats of the legislative, executive, and judicial departments, and then proceeds to discuss current questions and events, showing the changes which have been made in the course of development of the political situation...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology completes its twenty-fourth year this month. It has more than eight hundred students, and yesterday it granted the degree of bachelor of science to seventy-seven...