Word: nine
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...more games were played in the Leiter Cup league series on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The Limes defeated the Fathers, 6 to 4, and the Bush Leaguers defeated the Nine Muses...
...cheering under the direction of numerous cheer-leaders, who drag the last breaths from the supporters of the team in a frenzied endeavor to help bring about a victory. However righteous we may pretend to be it cannot be denied that this cheering is calculated to unnerve the opposing nine as much as it is to support the university team. In the seventh inning when the score is very close, the applause at an error of the visitors is almost as great as at a clever play by the home nine. Such cheering is decidedly unfair and unsportsmanlike...
...league series games for this afternoon are as follows: Limes vs. Fathers on the diamond behind the baseball bleachers, and bush Leaguers vs. Nine Muses on the new football field diamond...
...contents of the Harvard Illustrated Magazine for May are what is known as "timely." Twenty pages are given to nine articles on President Eliot. The first, telling of the Man, is by Professor Palmer, whose seat is now next to the President's at the Faculty table; the next telling of the Administrator, by Professor Taussig; another, on the President and the College, by Dean Hurlbut; on the President and Education, by Professor Hanual a hearty voice from the South comes from President Craighead of Tulane; a foreigner's view is given by Visiting Professor Kuehnemann; the President...
...curious feature of the nine presidential articles is the scarcity of personal anecdote; nearly everything is said in the generalized form of "characterizations"; the well-known story of an early Faculty meeting in the Medical School, quoted from Dr. Holmes' life in Thayer's two pages, is the only exception. Evidently another series of articles, with a larger spice of personal reminiscence, might follow this one. Some of the chapters might be: the President as a summer housekeeper, by a native of Mt. Desert; the President as a guest at Harvard Clubs, by old graduates all over the country...