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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard on Saturday Princeton virtually won the lacrosse championship. Considering the many adverse circumstances against which the Harvard eleven have had to work, our men made a good showing and deserve a great deal of credit. The cause of our defeat is very plain. The training required to make a winning team is long and arduous, and men will not go through it unless they are sure that their efforts will bring recognition. The men have worked hard and faithfully but without that entnusiasm which is necessary for victory. To this lack of support the defeat of Saturday...
...freshman nine defeated the sophomores yesterday afternoon on Jarvis field by a score of fourteen to seven. Only eight innings were played. The following is the make-up of the teams: Ninety-one-Weld, 1b; Nichols, 3b; Guerin, p; Babbitt, c; Corning, l.f; Bowman, 2b; Mariner, r.f; Fitzhugh, c.f; Lamb, ss. Ninety-two-Spalding, p; Hollis, c; Carpenter, 1b; Wrenn, 2b; Codman, 3b, Curtis, ss; Rankin, l.f; Allen, r.f; Neff, c.f. Umpire, Faulkner...
...head of the batting order. In the box, Hawley did fairly good work. He gave no men bases on balls and struck out three. He was hit very freely, however, Newark getting twelve hits with a total of seventeen. The nine as a whole still lack the ability to make quick decisions and allow men to get bases at times when there is no excuse for it. By this time every man ought to know what to do, even if there are three men on bases. Another fact is noticeable. In nearly every game so far there has been...
...proved and always will prove inducements to corrupt legislature.- Well's p. 139, Cong. Globe, 1869-70, part 5, p. 3860; (f) benefit one party at the expense of the whole country.- Well's, p. 141; Codman p. 15; Cong. Globe, 1869-70, part 5, p 3860; (g) would make shippers uneconomical and would destroy all competition...
...ever made this people a study. They are unquestionably the lowest of the human race in the scale of civilization; everything connected with their life proves this. The language is very simple, the vocabulary being extremely limited: there are no general words, as the natives do not make the simplest generalization; whole ideas are expressed by single words, and everything marks a primitive phase of human life. This is even more clearly shown in their weapons and other instruments. The civil customs are similar to those of other people who rank low in civilization. Their religious ideas are very limited...