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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...only discouraging feature of the afternoon's work was the rather mediocre batting of the 'Varsity. Only eight hits were made off Exeter's two pitchers, and of this number three were undeserved, being the direct result of Exeter's slowness in fielding. Both Carter and Clay pitched remarkably good bal for a school nine, yet inability, even under such conditions, to secures more than five square hits, seems to point to a critical weakness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD, 8; EXETER, O. | 5/18/1898 | See Source »

...question which now arises, which in fact was discussed with considerable interest at the smoker of the Sophomore Club last evening, is the advisability of carrying Sophomore organization on into the Junior year. To us such a move seems of rather doubtful expedience. In the first place an increasing number of 1900 debaters, will, as time goes on, gain admission to the ranks of the University Debating Club. Secondly, English 30 provides about as much debating for forty Juniors as they care to carry. Thus the number of men who could take an active interest in a Junior Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/17/1898 | See Source »

...longest of the tales and the most ambitious is "Little Anne" by C. S. Harper 3S. The characters in the story are very distinct and each one personally interesting. This writer understands the use of pathos, which figures largely in his second story, "Number Two Seventeen," the sad history of a convict and his too-long delayed pardon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 5/17/1898 | See Source »

...normal true-to-nature style of story of which this number largely consists is the best thing that the Advocate can hope to publish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 5/17/1898 | See Source »

...excuse can be offered. The team it is true is a green one, and its demoralization in the first inning was no doubt due in measure to Fitz's unexpected weakness. During the remainder of the contest, however, while a good up-hill fight was preserved in a number of innings, the errors which contributed so largely to Princeton's final score were of a nature which renders defeat on a rival's grounds especially galling, all the more so because the nine was capable of a far different exhibition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/16/1898 | See Source »

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