Word: mets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lacrosse team met its first defeat yesterday afternoon on Jarvis at the hands of the South Bostons. The ball was placed promptly on time. After six minutes play, Blodgett secured the first goal and only goal for Harvard. After this goal the visitors went to work in a very business-like way and in less than four minutes had tied the score, Joyce securing the goal. After the ball was started again it went to the neighborhood of our goals and staid there. A second goal for the South Bostons was thrown by Cooper nine minutes before the close...
Saturday afternoon Harvard met the Bowdoin nine and defeated them by a score of 13 to 5. The day was cold and raw and this may account somewhat for the large number of errors which were made. The fielding of both teams was miserable, and the only redeeming feature of the game was Harvard's heavy hitting. Mr. E. H. Nichols acted as umpire for two innings and then Mr. Egan appeared and took his place...
...related that several days since, as one of the '90 ladies from Sage was slowly walking up from town, she was met by several young men, who noticed that she carried a package concealed under her cloak, and as they passed her, she by accident let fall the package. Crash it went on the sidewalk and Courtland cider flowed copiously in all directions, and the maiden fled toward Sage. - Cornell...
...several years the Cochituate Base-Ball Nine has come up to Cambridge and taken Harvard into camp, but yesterday they met their match. The game was played on Jarvis Field and was interesting from a Harvard point of view, showing that close work could be done by a Harvard nine...
...industrial interests of the country by lowering the rates. The only remedy was the organization of a rival road. This peace was often a disastrous one financially, as a town which could support one road reasonably well, would bankrupt two, because the duplication of expenses was not met by a corresponding duplication of traffic. Thus it was a hazardous thing for private enterprise to institute a parallel line. In Europe, where private funds are not forthcoming to carry on a needed competing line, the government takes the matter into its hands and builds a rival road. Competition in railroading...