Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well as Harvard of due praise. Yale has done the game quite as much harm as she boasts she has done it good. She has made it a dangerous game; she, chiefly, has made umpires as well as referees necessary, and she has caused the public, in great part, to look with disfavor upon the sport...
...game. When Yale had the ball down, the captain is accustomed to give a preconcerted signal which indicates what is to be done with the ball. If a Yale play is to be made which includes a foul, the Yale umpire calls the attention of the referee to another part of the field. The moment this is effected the play is started, the foul made, the advantage gained and the referee has seen nothing. These signals were all pre-arranged, and we are told and indeed saw that "they worked beautifully...
...place on a class nine as honorable and desirable as a place on a crew. As some decisive step must be taken, and as this seems to be the only thing to be done, we hope to see, during the coming season, an earnest and united effort on the part of the leading men of the class nines to bring Harvard back to the commanding position which she held of old, and which so clearly belongs...
...whose walls exhibit great names of those who in their turn have studied and worshipped in those sacred precincts - such are the attractions which the universities hold out to their summer visitors, and which are little likely to be forgotten by those who have the good fortune to take part in them...
...Base-Ball League will be of service to the representatives of Harvard at the base-ball convention, in helping them to determine the stand which they will take upon this question. When the subject was first broached we gave it as our opinion that any separate action on the part of Harvard would be unwise and arbitrary, inasmuch as it would be nothing less than an attempt to coerce the other colleges into her way of thinking. Since that time the question of dividing the league has been discussed in other colleges, and seems to meet with much favor...