Word: plates
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...form and the correction of individual faults, each man, however, being allowed as much freedom as possible in batting in his own way. Attention was also given to teaching the men to hit hard and squarely without swinging and to correcting a general tendency to step away from the plate. The men have also practiced bunting both straight and curved balls...
Work has been commenced on the new baseball diamond which is to be located on the old football field. The home plate of the new diamond will be situated in the centre of the site occupied by the old south stand, and second base will be laid out to the north. Stands seating about 5,000 people will be erected around the east, west and south sides of the field...
...Munich. I am presenting it to the Harvard College library. The collection contains numerous works devoted to German history, and it is my desire to set these apart, and to add to them, until their number shall reach ten thousand volumes. These ten thousand volumes would have a book plate of their own and would form in the Harvard library a special collection of works on the history of Germany and of German civilization. They would be but a small portion of what we should hope to possess some day on these subjects, but, at least as a nucleus...
...order to protect the giraffe and other specimens of big African mammals in the Museum, the three large glass cases in the African room have been replaced by a single case, constructed of large panes of plate glass...
...University baseball field, which is to replace the old diamond over which the stadium is being built, will be located on the present University football field. Home plate will be placed close to the central section of the south stand, and space for an outfield will be made by removing the north stand. This will be done at the close of the football season, when the track will be taken up and the ground graded...