Word: ninth
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...failed to score, as Boyden struck out Hunting. In the eighth inning Fennessey and Hunting bunched two singles with no one out, but Moran struck out and Fennessey attempted to make third on a throw by Henshaw to Mumford but was put out by Holden, assisted by Mumford. The ninth inning proved a more fortunate one for the visiting team. They obtained two runs on a base hit, and errors by Henshaw and Willard...
...advance in this department of science, and forms an important extension of the work of the Observatory. The meridian photometer has been kept in active service throughout the year, and leaves little to be desired as a means of measuring the brightness of stars down to the ninth magnitude. The rapidity of the observations with this instrument is such that as many as 179 stars have been measured by a single observer in one evening. Various tests have been applied to detect the presence of systematic errors in this instrument, and extended comparisons of the results with similar work conducted...
...that it will continue to be the team. As to the university tug-of-war no one appears to know what that team is. Four men pulled at the Technology games, which, let us hope, was not the university team. A different four pulled at the games of the Ninth Regiment in December last; and still a third pulled last year. If, then, the fact that one of the '88 team has pulled on one of these many university teams destroys the justice of his pulling for '88 now, it would be perfectly right for '88 to complain...
...ninth annual winter games of the Yale Athletic Association were held week before last and were universally pronounced by far the most successful ever given by the association. Three Yale records were broken, the running high jump by one inch, the pole vault by one inch and a quarter, and the high-kick by two inches, the latter being only two inches less than the world's record. The sparring and wrestling contests were a great improvement over those of last year, and the whole meeting reflected great credit on the management and contestants...
...ninth annual meeting and dinner of the Harvard Odontological Society, held at Young's Hotel, Feb. 26, 1887, Dr. C. H. Taft of the class of '81 was chosen to deliver the address at the next annual meeting of the society...