Word: highly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...record of the eleven for this spring has been excellent and deserves a high amount of commendation. An examination of the account published this morning, will show that in almost every game the victory was gained in one innings. Longwood, which used to retire Harvard without effort, fell a victim to the good play of our eleven this spring, while other clubs of almost equal strength were easily worsted. These successes are the more praiseworthy and satisfactory, since they come from a source quite unexpected and fill up the gap made by our defeat in track athletics...
...water in Fresh Pond is said to be very low for the season. It is nine feet below high water mark...
...inquiring how far the effectiveness of a pitcher's curving would be affected by the barometric pressure. Imagine the captain of a base-ball team warning the nine before play began that they must allow a little more than usual for X's curves because the barometer is unusually high! Yet undoubtedly the air must more effectively deflect a spinning ball when the barometer is at thirty inches than when it is at twenty-nine inches. At cricket, even with the most perfect wickets, the break must be notably affected by accidental peculiarities of the ground. We have...
...freshmen speak in high terms of the gentlemanly manner in which they were entertained by their opponents of Wednesday. Perhaps an editorial which appeared in the Yale News of Wednesday morning had something to do with Yale's refraining from that discourteous and unfair treatment which characterized her tactics not many years since...
...Arthur M. Comey will have charge of the courses in chemistry. This school was first opened in 1874 and since that time has been attended by over 350 persons, among whom have been teachers in the principal high schools and academies of the country. The Cambridge Tribune publishes the following...