Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Saturday afternoon Harvard defeated the Technology team by a score of 11 to 1. The game was quite close and interesting up to the fourth inning, but after that Harvard struck a streak of batting, and aided by errors, walked right away from the Techs. The features of the game were two pretty running catches by Phillips and Wiestling. Smith pitched a fine game, holding the Tech's down to two hits. The Tech's fielded loosely, while Harvard fielded cleanly and batted with something like their old time vigor...
Please let me add that I do not have in mind a rough burlesque like the antiques and horribles who make our Fourth hideous. There could be any number of ludicrous take-offs and droll fancies, yet well, and picturesquely arranged...
...Clark, '87, Rogers, '87, Lund, '88, Mandell, '89, and T. C. Batchelder, L. S., were the entries for the standing high jump. The bar was started at three feet eight inches. All cleared successfully, till it reached four feet five inches. Mandell retired at four feet six and three-fourth inches. Clark and Lund at four feet eight and one-fourth inches. Rogers cleared this height and won the event. Clark and Lund then tried for second place, which was won by Lund at four feet six and three-fourth inches...
...Mark Hopkins successfully passed his eighty-fourth birthday on March...
...Lucius R. Paige, D. D., of Cambridge, the historian, celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday Monday...