Word: nine
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...velocipede. Two chapters are devoted to a full description of the manufacture and mechanics of the machine, and another to suggestions for learners. Advice about riding and racing, and information in regard to the laws and courtesies of the road, take up the next chapters. A list of thirty-nine routes, most of them in the vicinity of Boston, is given, and tables of the fastest time on record for all distances. Chapter eleven contains a model constitution for a bicycle club, and an excellent index ends the book. We have no doubt that this work will have a large...
...runs were scored, two of which were earned. The sympathizers of the blue felt a little shaky about this time, and it was with great satisfaction that they beheld Harvard retired in striking order in the ninth. The last part of the inning was played rather loosely by our Nine, Yale making no less than five base-hits, earning two runs, and scoring four...
...Yale. Coolidge, Wright, and Olmsted played well in the field. Holden caught splendidly, and it is much to be regretted that Harvard loses his services in the next game. Alger played an excellent up-hill game, and acquitted himself admirably considering the heavy batting tendencies of the Yale Nine. Howe made one of the finest fly-catches ever seen on a ball field. Hutchison's play at short was the principal feature on the part of Yale; he succeeded in stopping several seeming base-hits, and in sending them over to Hopkins like rifle-balls. Smith played pluckily behind...
...second floor will contain nine recitation-rooms, similar to those below, and six professors' retiring-rooms, furnished like the others. A broad corridor, similar to the one below, will run from end to end of the building, at the southern extremity of which will be an iron staircase running to the attic, for use in case of fire...
...regular crew have not been pulling this week. Cowdin has been obliged to give up rowing, and Crocker has taken the position of stroke, thereby adding much strength to the crew. Brewster will resume his position next week, but it is doubtful whether Taussig returns to the crew. Seventy-nine does not, on the whole, stand much chance of coming in first...