Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...blowing in toward home plate which prevented heavy batting. As may be seen by the score, the nine is very weak at the bat, and it will take hard individual work to bring them up to the necessary standard. The only feature of the game was the pitching of Oxford, who held the freshman down to four scattering hits in nine innings. In the fifth inning Sheldon injured his finger, and Whitely took his place behind the bat, while Wilson played centre field. Spaulding pitched for the freshman after the fifth inning. The score was as follows...
...settled that the University club will occupy the ground floor of the house at the corner of Oxford and Kirkland streets. This house together with what used to be the whole of the old Foxcroft estate, which includes all the ground between Hammond street and the Museum, has passed into the hands of the University corporation. The Foxcrofts have been Harvard men for many generations, the name appearing eight or nine times in the list of the alumni; the family is at present represented in the University by one member. The house which is to be used by the University...
Commodore Psotta, of Cornell, the amateur champion single sculler of America is going to England early in May to row for the diamond sculls at Henley. Gardner of the Oxford crew and Nichols stroke of Cambridge will compete with him. He will try to enter the four-mile Wingfield sculls in the middle of July and will go from there to the German regattas and the exposition race at Paris...
Cambridge easily beat Oxford in the race on Saturday...
...Science," written by well-known scientists. These books treat of the various natural sciences, of photography, of telegraphy, of the steam engine, railway appliances, etc. Another excellent set is a set of 53 volumes of Latin and Greek texts, edited and annotated by Dr. John T. White, of Oxford. Among the other books the following deserve mention: a complete set of the "Epochs of History;" selections from the English classics, and numerous works on the different branches of mathematics...