Word: good
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Boston Museum.- "The Good Mr. Best...
...letters to deliver several lectures before the University under the auspices of the Cercle. During the last few years the club has been steadily growing larger and the proceeds of the plays performed in public have been increasing, until now the club has several hundred dollars to the good. Besides this money which the club has in its immediate possession, persons in New York who are interested in the project have promised fifteen hundred dollars more. A similar subscription may be made in Boston. Professor Bocher is going abroad next summer and has consented to speak to some possible lecturers...
...College nine received its first defeat yesterday from the Fairmounts of Marlboro. They played in good form up to the end of the third inning and then, when the Fairmounts had a lead of two runs, the College team went to pieces and allowed their opponents to score almost at will. In the sixth inning Foster made a difficult stop of a grounder. He was forced to slide to the base to put the man out, which won him much applause. Gregory was not up to his usual form and was not well backed up by the rest...
Yesterday afternoon at Longwood the Harvard cricket eleven of substitutes defeated the Zingari team in a two inning game by the score of 48 to 46. In the first inning Harvard was retired for 12 runs and the Zingari for 28 runs. In the second inning, by the good bowling of Comfort and Du Pont, the Zingari only made 18 runs; the Harvard eleven with six wickets to spare made the necessary runs and won the game just as time was called. For the Harvard eleven, Scattergood, with 25 not out, in the second inning did the best batting. Comfort...
...Freshmen played a good, fast game, making only three errors and getting fourteen hits. Marlboro's only run was made in the third inning with two men out. Hurley got a base on balls, stole second and third, and came in on Foster's wild pitch. The score by innings follows...