Word: pointed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be the same as that chosen for the intended race last spring: starting from the bridge at Mt. Auburn, direct, through Watertown and West Newton to Great Sign Boards, thence to Newton Center by way of Beacon and Walnut streets, then back through Watertown, finishing at the starting point. The course as described above is about fourteen miles long, Liberal handicaps will be given in order to make the finish as close as possible. All riders in the university are invited and urged to enter. Further announcements as to time, prizes, handicaps and officers will be made later...
...point out the reason why the crew proved so slow would lead us too deeply into the study of their style of rowing, but in general the cause seems to lie in the failure to profit by the experience of recent years, inasmuch as the whole system of organization and management introduced by Storrow in 1885 was completely disregarded because the crews in the crews in the two succeeding years were defeated. The Yale and Columbia crews of 1886 beat Harvard after close races because they adopted, to a considerable extent, the same system and ideas that Storrow had taught...
...while the copings are to be of copper, and not of stone as is customary. The high roof and numerous gables and bay windows add greatly to the beauty of the structure and cause it look like a block of houses. The effect of the whole from an artistic point of view is very picturesque, and is much more in harmony with the green lawns which surround the buildings on every side than the cold red of our other buildings...
...chapel service to the religious feeling and high purpose of the undergraduates. It is in perfectly safe hands there, for there are few men indeed who do not, every day, wish for help that their lives may be more successful, and who do not know that they need more point than they have to make their lives succeed. Few men, indeed, who do not in every day turn aside from mere grinding or mere play to ask what life is for, and how it can be made better. Let more men determine to meet here when the bell rings...
Earned runs-Harvard, 4. Two-base hit-Willard. First base on balls-Harvard, 2. First base on errors-Harvard, 3. Struck out-Harvard, 4; Bergen Point, 11. Passed balls-Bergen Point, 4. Wild pitches-Harvard, 2; Bergen Point, 2. Flies caught-Harvard, 4; Bergen Point, 7. Fouls caught-Harvard, 1; Bergen Point, 3. Out on bases-Harvard, 3; Bergen Point, 3. Left on bases-Harvard, 4; Bergen Point, 4. Time-2h. 5m. Umpire-Mr. Cornish...