Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...point of speed the bicycle ranks seventh, the baloon, the locomotive, and trotting horses having faster records...
...several years the Cochituate Base-Ball Nine has come up to Cambridge and taken Harvard into camp, but yesterday they met their match. The game was played on Jarvis Field and was interesting from a Harvard point of view, showing that close work could be done by a Harvard nine...
...goods so far as to lose money on them, he gets more trade, loses more money, end is speedy bankruptcy. In the case of railroads, the running expenses are about the same, no matter how much carrying trade they have. If, now, by lowering their rates to a losing point, they gain their rivals' business, this increase will be enough to pay them for such reduction in prices. So, one road has got to meet its private reduction, or be crowded from the business...
...Glee Club and the Banjo Club have arranged a very pleasant trip for the Easter recess. They will leave New York on Thursday, April 7, for Old Point Comfort, where they will stay until Sunday night. Concerts have been arranged at Washington for Monday, April 11; at Baltimore, Tuesday, and at Brooklyn, Wednesday. The University nine has also planned a vacation trip, and will play the following games: Wednesday, April 6, at Newark with the local team; Friday, with the New Yorks at the Polo Grounds; Saturday, with the Brooklyns; Monday and Tuesday, with the Washingtons; Wednesday, the final game...
...club will undoubtedly be of the greatest benefit to athletics and will, it is hoped, put an end to anything but the best and most generous feelings between itself and all other colleges. At its rooms all the principals in the athletic circle can collect and discuss any disputed point by themselves, and can come to a decision before any feelings of doubt or misgiving get abroad to widen the little breach which rivalry always makes between colleges. At the same time it is hoped that the club will have its effects at home in improving the teams and drawing...