Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...short, which, though well stopped, landed him on first. He stole second, then Keator went to second and Rustin to third on a passed ball, third strike. Reddington fouled out to first and Carter knocked a long low hit to centre which brought Rustin in. A poor throw by shortstop allowed keator to score. Only once, in the fifth, did Harvard come within a point of scoring. Then, when one man was out, Highlands sent a hard one to center, who misjudged it, and Highlands went to third, and if properly coached would have scored. Carter struck out the next...
...Winslow and then Speer hit a high foul back of the reporter's bench which Scannell caught in brilliant style. Hayes also made a fine running catch of a short fly hit by Quinby. Hayes struck out, Highlands made a scratch hit, and Paine struck out on a poor decision by the umpire. Stevenson's grounder was fielded by Carter...
...Yale, Stephenson led off with a two base hit, but the next three men could not advance him. Harvard's first man Stevenson hit a single to left field. A moment later Greenway threw to first to catch him off the base. The throw was poor, and the ball rolled to right field. Stevenson took second, and kept on to third as Keator let the ball get away from him. Wrenn was given a base on balls and as the last one was a wild pitch, Stevenson crossed the plate. Wrenn also scored on Winslow's three-bagger which Speer...
...University buildings bear the names of their wealthy donors; our athletic fields have been gifts to the University; our highest professional chairs have not seldom been established by the liberality of individuals; and the long list of scholarships, which have put the Harvard culture within reach of hundreds of poor students, stands as very living proof of Harvard's indebtedness to the wealthy. True, the wealthy may also have been idlers; but it is not for a Harvard man to cast this up against them, and to condem their successors in the undergraduate body on that account. The class which...
...after all, is a large supply of ill-paid, unskilled work necessarily a boon to poor students. To me it seems that a man with enough ability to get into Harvard should be able to get work for which he will be paid more than twenty cents an hour...