Word: nines
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...view of the success which attended the races held by the Canoe Club a short while ago, the club has decided to hold six more races at the beginning of next week. Nine cups will be offered as prizes and as any two events are open to members of the Puritan Canoe club the races will undoubtedly be well contested. The entrance fee of 50 cents for each event must be made with some officer of the club before the date of the races. Below are the ceents...
...present collection of Harvardaina belonging to the Gore hall library, numbering in all about nine hundred bound volumes, is at present being recatalogued and re-arranged...
...Eighty-nine...
...every effort to play a game on Wednesday, May 1, as arranged. Late Tuesday might it was found that the class team would have to be examined by Dr. Sargent before leaving town. Efforts were made the next morning to have this done, but the captain of the '91 nine did not succeed in getting his men together in time to be examined and leave for Exeter at the time arranged. It would seem that the sophomore captain might have had his men measured at some time during the whole morning, if he had made every possible effort...
...same day the manager of the '91 nine wrote to Exeter asking for a game on Friday, May 10. The Exeter manager secured special permission from the faculty to play on that day, and telegraphed to Cambridge to have the team come if it could reach Exeter by a certain hour in the early part of the afternoon. The combined efforts of the '91 captain and manager failed to find on the time-table the train which was scheduled to reach Exeter at the said time. Notice was thereupon sent to Exeter stating Harvard's inability to reach Exeter...