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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Leeds's poor hit to Clark. Errors by Downer and Williams gave Latham first and second and Leeds third. Wright's force hit brought in the latter, and our score thereby reached the satisfactorily round number of ten. Yale retired in one, two, three order, the last man by a superb foul fly taken by Thayer after a long...
...running; there was no lagging or misjudgment in this respect. Morgan's catching was the brilliant feature of Yale's play. Though making a few unusual errors for him, his general play was very fine. Carter did not prove as effective as before, but he is always a hard man to hit. The rest played rather poorly, as the score will show. Their occasional brilliant plays were fully recognized, and applauded by the audience in an impartial and courteous spirit, which New Haven audiences would do well to imitate. The umpiring was excellent, and thoroughly satisfactory...
...stupid rule now enforced, no man can occupy his or any other room during the summer unless he has re-engaged his last year's room. There is no reason why common-sense should not be just as necessary in the Bursar's office as elsewhere...
...summer residents are having a delightful game of hide-and-seek with the conscientious night-watchman: each man on leaving the building leaves the latch up, the watchman emerges from behind the tree and puts it down; the next man leaves it up, down goes it again. This is repeated ad infinitum, and is just now beginning to become a bore...
...clear water was still between the two boats. Now in the last mile Yale commenced a desperate struggle for the lead. They spurted again and again; but the oft-mentioned "beef" in the Harvard boat was still fresh and ready. The boys pulled hard and viciously, not a man distressed, and the stroke still at 33. The water was terribly rough, and made this hard rowing cruel work for the men; and the spray flew from the oars of both crews. Still those broad backs pound d steadily and viciously away, and now the half-length of clear water opened...