Word: placing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...side, Cutler's play in left field was remarkably fine; Kent, Hodges, and Annan were quick and accurate in their several positions, while the pitching of Hooper won general praise. White was so unfortunate as to receive a foul ball in the eye, in the eighth inning. His place was occupied by Perry, catcher of the Freshman Nine. This game does not give the championship to the Princetons, as they have not won two games out of three...
...Dana was chosen Chairman, and E. M. Hartwell, Secretary. The business went on smoothly, and many important decisions were made. Among them these are the most important: that each boat shall start from an anchored boat; if the race is postponed from the time appointed, it shall take place the next pleasant afternoon; that a single scull race shall be held, open to men of all colleges in the Association, provided three entries be made before June 20. The selection of a Referee was left to a committee consisting of McClellan, Oakes, and Hartwell, which will report in July...
Colonel Higginson quotes Voltaire, - "Ideas and beards are alike, - women and very young men have none"; so we do not place much confidence in our opinion in this matter, which is as follows...
...readers will remember that the first game of the match between Harvard and Yale takes place at New Haven one week from to-morrow. About twenty men have agreed to take the half-fare tickets, should they be provided. We hope that every student who is able to do so will accompany our Nine to Yale. Hearty encouragement from a crowd of fellow-students will help our men far towards victory; besides which a good game may be expected, as both clubs are in excellent practice...
...this nature are the merest society twaddle. Servant-girls and babies may be very pleasant topics of conversation to these young ladies, but they are hardly the subjects one would choose to drag before the public in an essay for a quarterly, and in such a place thorough discussion of a matter is expected rather than a superficial narration. Besides all this, such articles as "The Moon Hoax" - a valuable piece of information, no doubt - are more suited to the local columns of the daily press than to pages where we have a right to expect something more than mediocrity...