Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...days when members were elected wholesale, and without regard to their scientific qualifications. But the fact remains that the society is soon to lose some valuable members; and their places must be filled by men of succeeding classes. Such men, even though well qualified from a scientific point of view, will not be likely to desire membership, unless they see the society is an earnest and interested body of workers, reaping decided advantages from the opportunities for co-operation and mutual benefit which such a society should afford in its particular department. During the year just passed, we have endeavored...
...that the meetings were held once a week. About this time it was voted to allow freshmen and sophomores to attend the meetings and vote on the questions for debate. From the early part of the year 18836, until its final dissolution, the society was several times on the point of disbanding. The constitution and by laws do not seem to have been satisfactory, for they were constantly being amended and altered...
...nine came back from its last year's trip with a much less glorious record than it gained for us this year. Last spring we beat Yale by a score of 8 to 7, and Amherst to the tune of 13 to 10. This year we can point to a score of 12 to 4 made against the Blue, and 15 to 5 scored in the match with Amherst. Truly, our nine has brought honors to the college, and the honors it has received from us are hard earned and well deserved. With our present record we need feel...
...meeting of the Union this evening is of great importance, and every friend of the society should make it an especial point to be present. For some time it has been the aim of several interested in the Union to make such changes in the constitution as should more closely unite the society and more clearly mark the privileges of membership. In order to do this, provisions must be inserted in the constitution to make membership depend on previous work, plainly manifested interest and approval of those already enrolled as members...
...fourth inning Yale scored 1 run in the third inning through Bremner, who got his first on balls, and came around on sacrifice hits. Yale was blanked in the next inning. The score now stood 2 to 1 in favor of Yale, the game up to this point being intensely exciting. In the fifth inning however, Harvard did wonderful work with the bat, while Yale made numerous errors and showed herself thoroughly rattled. The result was that Harvard scored seven runs, two of which were earned. Yale also succeeded in bunching her hits in this inning and scored two runs...