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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Pitcher Ames, of the Princeton nine, has done the best work of any of the college pitchers up to this time. The strong Jersey City team made only two hits off his delivery, and the Athletics found almost as much trouble in hitting the ball sately...
...Thinfellow. The play describes the passion of Myles for Priscilla, how he got John Alden to plead for him and how Priscilla repulsed Myles but accepted John. The intrigues of Hobomok, the chief of the Wampums with Myles and the tragic end of John Alden created much laughter. The Overseers Scene in which the proposed regulations were alluded to was one of the best hits...
...articles are of especial interest, "Le Buddhisme en Occident" by Em. Burnouf, and De I'Etude et de I'Enseignement des Langues Vivantes by Panl Berry. The latter article is one of especial interest to members of such a university as Harvard, in which so much attention is paid to modern languages. The number as a whole is very bright and contains several interesting stories as well as two or three bright bits of verse...
...gave a highly creditable exhibition. Plisoury performed the most difficult feats and was the most graceful. He was clearly entitled to the first prize, which he received. The second prize was awarded to Leonard. McLellan's performance showed off his great strength to advantage, but did not contain as much variety as the others...
...second and final heat in the tug-of-war brought the meeting to a close. Columbia won half an inch on the drop, but this was soon recovered by Harvard, with half an inch more. The strain was clearly too much for Perry, however, and at the end of two minutes, Columbia had pulled an inch of the rope to their side. From this time they kept increasing their advantage, until they had 5 inches at the end of four minutes, and a foot when time was called. The arrangements on the shoulders of the Columbia rope men evidently gave...