Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...score of 14 to 1. '89 was minus the services of some of their best men, and this, with Bingham's wild pitching, was the cause of their defeat. The latter gave eight men bases on balls and nearly every one of them scored. The ground was very poor, the pitchers box being on quite a hill, compared with home plate, and this may have been the cause of the wild pitching. Tuttle pitched a good game for the Braintrees, only being hit for five singles and striking out eight men. Hurley played well at first base. The following...
...urged that the present plan which allows the cramming of a piece for the declamation in the last few days before the trial, defeats the purpose of the prize. We take strong exceptions to this view, for the simple reason that we deny that any student who is a poor speaker, can, with a few day's practice, present a declamation of a high order. Here it is replied that for this very reason the excellence of the contest is far from marked. This is simply an attack upon the methods of instruction here pursued. In reply to such...
Eighty-nine won her first game yesterday, defeating eighty-six by a score of 7 to 4. The freshmen showed a marked improvement in their fielding, but were weak at the bat. '86 lost through poor fielding. Downer was struck on the arm by a pitched ball in the fifth inning, and his place was taken by Weaver. The best playing was done by Hurley and Clark. Bruner did good work for '86. McPherson made a pretty throw from centre field to the plate, shutting out a run. The score...
...increasing number of undergraduates, and the special pleasure of college life, which consists to a great extent in living in the midst of companions of one's own age and tastes, is denied in a great measure to these same men. Of course, as long as Harvard is too poor to build another dormitory, some one must suffer, but we think it only just to give upper classmen the preference over sub-freshmen, by limiting the number of rooms for which sub-freshmen may apply...
...forty Harvard men were present yesterday at College Hill, to witness a rather exciting game between Harvard and Tufts. The opposing nine played a fairly good game, considering that their catcher and pitcher were hired especially for this occasion from the John L. Whiting team. The grounds were extremely poor, and the umpire, if possible, worse. The feature of the game was Choate's long uphill hit to right field, which secured him a home run. Other good plays were made by Foster for Harvard, and by Barkley and Chapman for Tufts. Smith's pitching was effective, while the number...