Word: half
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...most important events which has occurred at the University in recent years was the dedication of the Flower Observatory, which has been building for the past year and a half. One of the houses contains the great Equatorial telescope, than which there are but five larger ones in this country and six in Europe. The aperture of the object is eighteen inches and the length of the instrument about twenty-seven feet. The observatory has been pronounced to be one of the finest and best equipped in the country...
...story of the game really reduces itself to an account of the 5th and 9th. In Princeton's half of the 5th one man got out quickly. Then Bradley knocked an easy grounder to Stevenson, who threw too high for Haughton to reach, Bradley going to second. Paine threw past Dean and Bradley got to third. Easton was hit, stole second, and then he and Bradley both scored on Altman's single. Two more hits followed and then a base on balls. A sacrifice hit brought home a run and then Princeton went out on Kelly's failure to reach...
Pennsylvania won the toss and sent Harvard into the field. They started into bat very carefully. F. A. Green, especially, batted in excellent form, holding up his wickets for two hours and a half, until finally he was stumped by Scattergood...
...deep gloom has been cast over the University by the accident which befell Rowley Shepardson, of the freshman class, on Saturday afternoon, resulting fatally yesterday. With several companions he had gone gunning along the canal, and, in pushing off a boat in which he had placed his gun half-cocked, caused the gun to go off, the whole load entering his body. He was taken to the infirmary and given the best medical attention, but death came on Sunday afternoon. Mr. Shepardson's home was in Richmond...
...first interscholastic games under the auspices of the Princeton Track Association took place on Saturday afternoon at the 'Varsity field. Thirty-one schools were represented and one hundred and sixty individual entries were made. A feature of the day was the half-mile run, in which Hipper, of Barnard, the interscholastic champion, was defeated by Manvel, of Pingry. Lawrenceville won the handsome banner offered as a trophy by scoring the greatest number of points-33. Berkeley was second with 20 1-3 points, and Pingry third with...