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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Daniel Pratt was born in Chelsea, Mass., in 1809. He was apprenticed to a carpenter and followed that trade for a time, but disappeared suddenly and was not seen at home again for a dozen years. When he returned his mind was unbalanced, and from that time on he led a wandering life...
...every person graduated from a college in the Middle and Eastern States during the last twenty-five or thirty years the name and face of Daniel Pratt are familiar. He, in fact, adopted himself into the fraternity of college undergraduates, looked on them as his friends, made himself at home at their tables and on their campuses, and was never so pleased as when he was exciting himself and, as he believed, arousing their enthusiasm by one of his famous addresses. Pratt's origin and early history were not known to his student acquaintances. That...
...question is often asked why the representatives that Cornell sends to the American intercollegiate field meeting have never won anything for the university. The men that have been sent from here, have, in several cases, done performances at home quite equal to any done at other colleges; they have trained faithfully, and done everything that could be suggested by an experienced trainer to insure success, yet they have been invariably beaten...
Earned runs - Beacons, 4; Harvard, 4. Two-base hits - Henshaw, Merrill, Ayer. Three-base hits - Allen, Choate. Home runs - Willard, Choate, Richardson (2). Struck out - by Bingham, 3 by Boyden, 7. Bases on balls - by Boyden, 1; by Richardson, 2. Passed balls - Choate, 2; Knowlton, 1. Left on bases - Beacons, 4; Harvard, 6. Stolen bases - Beacons, 3; Harvard, 3. Time - 2h. 5m. Umpires - Mr. Potter, '87; Mr. Fisk...
...defeat of May last. Allen's hit for three bags, in the fifth, was followed by a passed ball, which gave one run. Then the sixth resulted in a gain of three more runs for the Beacons, on an error, a single and Richardson's clean home run. The eighth added two runs more, of which one was contributed by Richardson, who duplicated his former feat by driving to long right field for a second home...