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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...temper, and to this end they recommend an additional umpire and an increase in the powers and responsibilities of all the officials. These changes, coupled with the influence of the present widespread and merited criticism of unfair play, it is believed, will put the game upon a truly sportsman like basis...
...answer to the charge made in a communication in yesterday's CRIMSON, that while Harvard sends baseball coaches to Andover, Exeter is "entirely neglected," I should like to say that there has not been the slightest intention on the part of the baseball management to show preference to Andover over Exeter or any of the other preparatory schools. It has already been arranged to send coaches to Exeter, and one will be sent within a week...
...crew will race this year in a new shell, built by Davy, from a very original plan of Mr. Bryant, the yacht designer. The boat is shaped very much like a cigar, the stern being square and about eight inches wide. It is several feet longer than the ordinary, and will weigh 250 pounds. The unusually wide stern is expected to prevent the shell from settling at the end of the stroke. If the experiment succeeds it will revolutionize the present system of boat building...
...rainy weather. The shareholders of the private theatres had their own boxes. Performances were given by candle-light instead of in the daytime as at public theatres. "The Silent Woman" was originally performed at the Blackfriars Theatre, which was private. Unfortunately it is not known what the interior looked like. Sanders will be made to resemble the Swan, a public theatre, as far as possible...
...some respects the Swan was like Sanders Theatre. It had an additional gallery, and the stage, instead of being behind the proscenium arch, was in front of it. The orchestra of Sanders Theatre, if cleared out, would correspond to the pit of the Swan. The fops and gallants, who did not care to go on the stage, used to send ahead their pages to hire stools and reserve good places in the pit. On either side of the pit were the Lords' boxes...