Word: less
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Holmes on the same day. This was won by Harvard, 14 - 2. The distinguishing features of the game were the errors of Yale, 18 in the battery, and 10 in the field. In the three championship games since, she has made only 19 errors, altogether, nearly 1-3 less. The fourth week closed with Princeton still at the head, Harvard second, Yale third...
...have heard of the trouble which Yale is having with the coaching of her crew, and now receive word that unless in the future celebrations over ball victories are less demonstrative this year will be the last in which Yale will be allowed to contest for the intercollegiate base-ball pennant. We can fully sympathize with the students who wear the blue from our experience in foot-ball. We trust that the report which is now current, that Yale will probably in any event be prohibited for playing ball next year, is without foundation. If Yale should no longer...
...knew his business, and attended to it faithfully, did not look at the race, but at the tape. He did not know any of the runners, and when the first man hit the tape, he seized him and found him to be Rogers, who had won by a little less than the thickness of his body. The delay in announcing the decision was caused by the uproar and confusion, and not by any disagreement of the judges...
Nominations for four graduate scholarships for the year 1886-87 will be made during the present month. The income of these Scholarships will be not less than $250 each, payable in three equal instalments, in January, April and June. They may be held by students in the Graduate Department who are in residence during the year...
...Less stress will le laid on dates and details than on an ability to distinguish the significant points in the work gone over, and to understand their relations: a good general comprehension can, however, be based only on a previous study of details...