Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual examinations and exercises of the West Point Military Academy are now in progress...
...taken by the 'varsity base-ball management-at least so far as the college at large knows. The several teams which have been formed are not sure whether they are to play for cups or not. Will the managers of the Base-Ball Association kindly enlighten us on this point as soon as possible...
...balls, stole second, took third on player's choice, came home on Parker's base hit, and the game was lost. Crosby played very well for Harvard: Huntington did the best word for Yale. It is useless to deny that the Yale team completely outplayed our men at every point. Yet we might still have won the game, had it not been for the four or five erroneous decisions of the umpire. These base decisions and the rain were the only things that marred the pleasure of the day. The Yale freshmen, contrary to custom, did not give the team...
...Prometheus Fired" treats of the old athletic question in a very new and original manner. Portions of this socalled lost Play of Aeschylus are very clever and well written. The work is, however, very uneven in point of merit. The charge of the Archon Eponymous is by far the brightest and best written scene of the play. The plot lacks continuity and hence fails to some extent in its purpose...
...first two chapters of "Bird Tavern" are better than the third, both in point of style and in the development of the plot. There is a suggestion of the improbable toward the end. The story, however, is as a whole interesting and deserves a commendation...