Word: playing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class team will play the Cambridge High School this afternoon on the common...
...Harvard stands in athletics, there should nothing be done, the matter should never for one instant be considered. Why should we not contest with Princeton? She has always given us a fair fight and has oftener beaten us. Until we can beat Princeton, why should we refuse to play with her? A significant fact in last night's meeting was, that no reasons were brought forward as to why we should take such a stand...
...Society gave a play Friday evening. The play was followed by the usual banquet at which Dr. F. C. Hains presided. Speeches were made by many of the 150 graduates present. The first eight from ninety were initiated...
...freshman nine played its first game away from Cambridge on Saturday. The showing made both at the bat and in the field is so far far from encouraging. This season the ninety-two nine has done little deserving of praise. To be sure there has been but little chance to play good practice games, but this fact is not sufficiently accountable for the circumstance that the present freshman nine seems far below the average freshman nines. The candidates have had the advantage of getting out on the field earlier than usual, and it was for the purpose of getting well...
...five runs in succession, owing to an opportune base hit of Dean's, but Staten Island made six runs in the second inning and Harvard did not catch up again. The features of the game were the home run by Howland, the batting of Willard and Henshaw, the double play by the Staten Islands, and a pick up by Wood in the fourth inning. The game occupied three hours and was so void of interest that nearly everyone had left the field before its finish. Only eight innings were played. In the fifth inning. McLeod was replaced by Hawley...