Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...College Nine lost the game in the second inning, when they allowed Andover to score six runs, chiefly on account of errors. Andover, however, batted the ball hard, making thirteen hits in the eight innings. Their fielding, too, was snappy and accurate, especially the throwing to bases. Arnold, after the first two innings, pitched a good game, striking out ten men, although he gave several bases on balls. Martin did decidedly the best work for Harvard, making two hits and playing an errorless game in the field. The score by innings...
Buddha himself said his whole doctrine was hard to comprehend. It is such an elaborate system of philosophy that it was very little understood by the common herd. Its signal weakness is that it has no place for ambition or human endeavor...
...make the team race faster and more interesting, points will be counted at the end of each lap as well as at the finish. Work is being pushed rapidly on the Cambridgeport track, and the team will begin to train there in about a week. Until then it is hard to judge exactly of the merits of the men nowriding. Mr. Rich, who is coaching the riders, is well pleased with the outlook, and the team should do very well in this meet...
Harvard began with some hard playing. Scannell hit for two bases, advanced on Dean's single and both scored on a passed ball...
Professor Baker spoke next, reminding the debaters that the meeting was not merely prompted by good comradeship, but was an earnest recognition of the enormous amount of hard and self-sacrificing work done by the debaters. He assured the team of his confidence in them as debaters, and as men fully representative of Harvard's system of teaching debate...