Word: holdings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spurt between the freshman, university and a scratch crew on Friday, the latter were easily distanced, while the freshmen managed to hold the university for a considerable distance...
...that in the active work of life the mere fact of "digging"out a translation in Greek or Latin will not aid them in the world. Such is the general belief, and in consequence the general tendency of the classes is toward the English branches of learning. Yet we hold that it is somewhat of an error to summarily put aside the work that has taken many school years to bring to a point where it begins to be really useful. An average student is able to read easy Greek and Latin at sight when he becomes a sophomore...
...gain positions on any of our teams, and a large majority of such men in the different classes do not even try. It may be the fault of the management that not enough inducement has been held out to make the men try for positions. The position that Harvard holds in rowing and field athletics is, without doubt, due to the efficient management of the respective associations, but the scarcity of good, not brilliant, foot-ball and base-ball players, is accounted for only by bad management or indifference. At other colleges the system pursued is much different...
...Bicycle Club will hold the last smoker of the year some time this week...
...Yale freshman opened the game by hitting Baker all over the field, while Hickox kept Harvard down to five hits in as many different innings. Goodwin split his thumbing the third inning and Morse, though stopping fairly, was to tally unable to hold hickox, and missed eight third strikes, and allowed two of them to reach first. Had Hickox been well supported, fifteen men would have been out on strides. The features were the batting of Marsh, Sheppard and Hickox, and the pitching of Hickox and the fielding of Sheppard, Ayer, Hickox, for Yale. The best playing for Harvard...